Humanitarian Logistics
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) INTRODUCTION 2) KEY OBJECTIVES 3) HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS ADOPTED BY WFP a) SHIPPING b) AVIATION c) SURFACE TRANSPORT 4) EMERGENCY RESPONSE 5) DISASTERS RELEIF EMERGENCY FUNDS (DREF) d) UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE DEPOTS IN DUBAI UAE 6) THE LOGISTICS ENVIRONMENT OF DUBAI a) AIR PORT AND FREE ZONE AREA b) LEGAL FRAMEWORK c) INFORMATION ABOUT OPERATIONS i. IMPORTS ii. DOCUMENTATIONS FOR IMPORTS iii. EXPORTS iv. DOCUMENTATIONS FOR EXPORTS 7) INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES v. IFRC OBJECTIVES vi. LOGISTICS APPRAOCH
8) SOFTWARE FOR HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS 9) CONCLUSION 10) REFERENCES
SUMMARY
This report mainly focuses on the humanitarian logistics followed by different organizations. The humanitarian organizations adopt different strategies to help the affected areas. This all can be done by the best utilization of supply chain management procedures to overcome the difficulties and complications on the way to promote humanitarian practices. The UNHRD, Red Cross and Red Crescent societies and DREF promotes the humanitarian relief programs throughout the world with their best logistics activities with their expertise. They have distribution centers in different areas to cover the disasters area in the whole world. If these humanitarian organizations facing any problems then how they deal with it and what are the measurements they have to adopt to build the supply chain management faster and more optimistically in the future. Being ruling all over the world by these major organizations, Dubai places an important role for these organizations to cover the Middle East and Asian countries. How they get different aids and donations to Dubai and how they transfer these goods to different places, all the steps are shown in this report. It also provides the progress of
8) SOFTWARE FOR HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS 9) CONCLUSION 10) REFERENCES
SUMMARY
This report mainly focuses on the humanitarian logistics followed by different organizations. The humanitarian organizations adopt different strategies to help the affected areas. This all can be done by the best utilization of supply chain management procedures to overcome the difficulties and complications on the way to promote humanitarian practices. The UNHRD, Red Cross and Red Crescent societies and DREF promotes the humanitarian relief programs throughout the world with their best logistics activities with their expertise. They have distribution centers in different areas to cover the disasters area in the whole world. If these humanitarian organizations facing any problems then how they deal with it and what are the measurements they have to adopt to build the supply chain management faster and more optimistically in the future. Being ruling all over the world by these major organizations, Dubai places an important role for these organizations to cover the Middle East and Asian countries. How they get different aids and donations to Dubai and how they transfer these goods to different places, all the steps are shown in this report. It also provides the progress of
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