Practices and Factors Affecting the Humanitarian Logistics Performance of the World Food Program: Ethiopia
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2021-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The study aimed to assess practices and factors affecting the humanitarian logistics performance of the world food program: Ethiopia. The study has proposed to discover and empirically test the factors affecting the humanitarian logistics performance which are namely. Availability of collaboration/coordination, sufficient donor funding, availability of professional staff, sufficient local market supplies and accuracy of information technology; to measure the performance of humanitarian logistics in the Ethiopian world food program. Theoretical and empirical literature review on each dependent and independent variable were conducted to design a structured questionnaire. Hence, a total number of 100 questionnaire was distributed to employees of WFP Ethiopia head office and 80 useable questionnaires was returned with a response rate of 90.99 percent. Hence, the paper used descriptive statistics, including percent, mean and standard deviation were conducted to describe the major factors that are affecting the humanitarian logistics performance of WFP Ethiopia. Analysis model such as Kendal’s. Wallis coefficient of concordance of the rank order has been conducted to rank the factors affecting the logistics performance of WFP Ethiopia. Davidson (2006) scorecard model has also been incorporated to evaluate the factors affecting the humanitarian logistics. The qualitative data results that was collected using interview methods were triangulated. The analysis results have showed that how the factors can impact and influence the performance of humanitarian logistics. The top three ranked factors were availability of sufficient funds, coordination and collaboration and availability of professional staffs. Finally the study has recommended that to be able to perform a smooth relief operation the organization should work closely with other stakeholders to improve their coordination and collaboration with other stakeholders, to work with the donors to get sufficient funds for smooth relief operation and work on their retaining of their employees to keep their professional stuff, also working closely with the local suppliers and accuracy of the IT would give the organization a plus point in executing a smooth operation. The research recommends to be able to increase the appeal coverage in the WFP Ethiopia the organization should work intensively on the appeal coverage as donors will only deliver what they have promised to deliver, secondly the donors should be consistent to deliver what they have promised to do so within the given period of time. Finally, a data assessment and verification to track and minimize the gap between what has been budget for the operation and how much was spent on the operation.
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Humanitarian, Relief, Operation, Performance, Practice