Factors Affecting the Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Practices of Birhan for Mothers and Children Morbidity and Mortality Surveillance Ethiopia Program
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2021-08
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Addis Ababa University
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The goal of humanitarian Supply Chain Management is to minimize the human suffering, in particular to prevent further loss and damage to people, as well as to treat people with injuries and illnesses immediately.
This study is carried out to assess the existing humanitarian supply chain management practices and identify factors affecting the humanitarian supply chain management practices of BIRHAN for mothers and children morbidity and mortality surveillance Ethiopia program.
A census survey focused on the operations department by deploying questionnaires. The researcher used structured questionnaires to collect data. of the 74 questionnaires distributed ,65 questionnaires were corrected and presented to the SPSS data analysis tool for statistical testing. A descriptive and explanatory research design was used to describe and analyze factors those affecting the humanitarian supply chain management practices of BIRHAN for mother and children. Descriptive statistics was used to explain the profile of the respondents and to discuss responses of the respondents on humanitarian supply chain management practices by measuring mean and standard deviation. Research questions also tested by using statistical analysis of multiple linear regressions and K.W Coefficient analysis model. The finding shows that humanitarian supply chain management practices such as sourcing/ procurement, inventory management, transportation, warehouse /facility location and distribution management were properly practiced. The multiple regression result has shown that earmarking of fund, lack of skilled human resource and lack of supply chain relationship are negatively and significantly affecting humanitarian supply chain management practices BIRHAN for mothers and children morbidity and mortality surveillance Ethiopia program. Hence in order to achieve better humanitarian Supply chain management practices BIRHAN for mothered and children should work on the three constructs. However, demand uncertainties, lack of information technology adoption and degraded infrastructure have been reported to be less important, so this study invites future researchers to investigate whether this variable has no a significant impact on humanitarian supply chain management practice.
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Humanitarian supply chain management practices, factors affecting HSCMP, BIRHAN for mother and children