Humanitarian Supply Chain Practices and Factors Affecting Its Performance at International Medical Corps Ethiopia Office
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This study assessed the practices of humanitarian supply chain and identified the factors affecting the humanitarian supply chain practices and performance of International Medical Corps (IMC) – Ethiopia program. The study utilized both explanatory and descriptive research design. The study population comprised of all the 734 employees of the surveyed organisation’s sites and 206 self-administered questionnaires were returned properly that was used to collect primary data. Descriptive statistics was computed to describe the characteristics of the variables in the study while correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to establish the nature of the relationships between the independent and dependent variables. The findings indicate that there was a good humanitarian supply chain practice in IMC Ethiopia; among the four practices procurement resulted in greater but unsatisfactory transport practices have been found. Higher humanitarian supply chain performance of IMC Ethiopia was found particularly towards flexibility of humanitarian supply chain performance. The key factors affecting the humanitarian supply chain performance in IMC Ethiopia included top management commitment, availability of adequate staff, adequate use of information technology, adequate institutional learning practice integration, government factors (harmonization), infrastructure and socio-economic situational factors.This study concluded that effective humanitarian supply chain practice needs for higher supply chain performance in humanitarian organizations. This study suggests it needs a Supply chain and logistics conferences to create an efficient and cost-effective flow and storage of goods and materials for the purpose of alleviating the suffering of vulnerable people, came of age during higher level disaster relief effort.
Keywords: Humanitarian Supply Chain, Practices, Performance