Year
2023
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of collaboration in humanitarian operations, focusing on the logistical aspects. Humanitarian logistics and operations has emerged as a subfield of supply chain and operations management and studies how humanitarian organizations can be more efficient in the delivery of humanitarian aid. We review the key characteristics of this subfield compared to traditional logistics and supply chain management. Collaboration is particularly important in the humanitarian context, in which only the collective performance of humanitarian organizations should count. We therefore discuss key factors of collaboration using the humanitarian SCOR model. Finally, we analyze how far the COVID-19 pandemic has forced humanitarian organizations to collaborate differently in their operations and what can be learned from it for the future of humanitarian operations.
KESHVARI FARD, M. et PAPIER, F. (2023). Collaboration in Humanitarian Operations in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Dans: Rico Merkert, Kai Hoberg eds. Global Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies for the 2020s. 1st ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 339-356.