Assessing the Humanitarian Supply Chain Management of Healthcare Logistics During Disaster Response Operation: The Case of Disaster Relief and Food Security Program Coordination Office, North Shewa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shiferaw Mitiku (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Workye Molla | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-07T11:34:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-07T11:34:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Humanitarian Supply Chain Management of Healthcare Logistic is the process of effective and efficient plans, implementations and controls for aid flows from the point of origin to the point of consumption with the aim of meeting the aid recipients’ requirements. The main objective of this study is to assess humanitarian supply chain management of healthcare logistics practices, challenges and to measure the operational performances of humanitarian relief logistics during disaster relief operations in the case of disaster relief and food security program coordination, North Shewa, Amhara region. The study employed descriptive type of research design and both qualitative and quantitative approach were implemented by using census sampling. The target populations were all employees of disaster relief and food security program coordination, North Shewa. Data was collected using questionnaire and analyzed by using statistical package for social science. The sample size for quantitative studies was 78 employees of the organization. Both primary and secondary data were applied for this study. Primary data were collected with questionnaires, semi-structured interview and secondary data were reviewed report of the organization. The finding indicates thatabout 53% of the respondents have knowledge to basic components of HSCM logistics practices are took place in their organization and about 83.6% of respondents identified the main challenges, which impacted on the humanitarian organization of operational performances and only 32% of the respondents were reflected the three performances indicators are significance to HSCM logistics performances operations of their organization.Conclusions; humanitarian supply chain management logistics practices and challenges are affected the humanitarian supply chain management operation performances by putting more pressure on a consequence, which decreased the activities of HSCM and slowed down the delivery to beneficiaries and hence decreased quality of operations. Finally the following recommendations will be demonstrated; effective coordination between all partner, establishing suppliers performance rewarding schemes in procurement by identify potential supplier, provide response rapidly to beneficiary, distribute relief aid to those whose need it, implements practices of “just in time” approach in humanitarian supply chain management factors related to reliability, responsiveness and agility and implement HSCM logistics process standardization. Keywords: Humanitarian supply chain, Healthcare logistics, Disaster, response, Relief operation | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/2175 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.title | Assessing the Humanitarian Supply Chain Management of Healthcare Logistics During Disaster Response Operation: The Case of Disaster Relief and Food Security Program Coordination Office, North Shewa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia | |
| dc.type | Thesis |