Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Volume 8 Issue 3 , Open Access

Humanitarian logistics research for the care of refugees and internally displaced persons: A new area of research and a research agenda

Richard Oloruntoba, Ruth Banomyong

This “thought paper” is written by the special issue editors as a part of the five papers accepted and published in response to the special issue call for papers on logistics and…

International and local NGO supply chain collaboration: An investigation of the Syrian refugee crises in Jordan

Samar Al Adem, Paul Childerhouse, Temitope Egbelakin, Bill Wang

The purpose of this paper is to identify the key drivers and challenges to supply chain collaboration in the humanitarian sector; to appraise the relationships between…

Approaches to the design of refugee camps: An empirical study in Kenya, Ethiopia, Greece, and Turkey

Marianne Jahre, Joakim Kembro, Anicet Adjahossou, Nezih Altay

An unprecedented scale of human migration has lead humanitarians to view camps as long-term settlements rather than temporary holding facilities. The purpose of this paper is to…

Developing a camp performance indicator system and its application to Zaatari, Jordan

Anna-Mara Schön, Shahad Al-Saadi, Jakob Grubmueller, Dorit Schumann-Bölsche

The purpose of this paper is to present the initial results of the Camp Performance Indicator (CPI) system to illustrate the importance of self-reliance of refugee camp dwellers…

In-kind donations, cash transfers and local procurement in the logistics of caring for internally displaced persons: The case of Polish humanitarian NGOs and Ukrainian IDPs

Wojciech D. Piotrowicz

The purpose of this paper is to investigate humanitarian supply chains in the context of the Ukrainian crisis as example of complex emergency. The paper focuses on a selection of…

Humanitarian supply chain management responding to refugees: a literature review

Lysann Seifert, Nathan Kunz, Stefan Gold

The purpose of this paper is to map and analyse the literature from 1989 to 2016 on humanitarian supply chain management (SCM) responding to refugees. This literature review…