Global Supply Chain Management‚ Individual Assignment Cold chain in Humanitarian Aid – delivery of vaccines to patients in a relief situation. Meningitis campaign from Médecins Sans Frontières in South Sudan Student Numbers: 53283 Maastricht‚ 24th January 2014 Contents 1. Introduction / situation analyse 1.1. Increased supply chain in humanitarian aid Scott (2010) points out that donors in humanitarian aid ask for more value for money in relief operations and that the market
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Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Literature Review 1. Risk Management in Humanitarian Relief Operations 2. Commercial Supply chain and Humanitarian Supply Chain – A Comparative Study 4. Case Study 1. The Yogyakarta Earthquake – Humanitarian Relief Operations through IFRC’s Decentralized Supply Chain. 5. Areas to focus for Future Research 1. Sourcing and Supplier Management 2. Performance Management
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Geopolitics in humanitarian action 2013 Course Syllabus Dr. Luz Paula Parra Rosales‚ luzpaulap@hotmail.com Lecture: Mondays‚ Wednesdays and Fridays Hours: 10 to 12 Introduction The analysis of how political decisions are conditioned by geographical settings is the subject matter of geopolitics. In purely spatial terms‚ geopolitics is the study of boundaries and areas. In conceptual terms‚ geopolitics comprises the study of international relations and the outcome of power struggles‚ at local
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Abstract Humanitarian intervention constitutes one of the largest dilemmas in world politics and international relations today. The dilemma is born out of the conflicting desire for a state to pursue humanitarian intervention and how this act undermines state sovereignty. Even though sovereignty serves as a boundary to prevent the interfering and possibly damaging forces of other states‚ it often serves as an obstacle to humanitarian intervention. This paper will argue that foreign powers do (in
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The UK and other major powers have been involved in humanitarian intervention throughout history‚ however there is no one standard or legal definition for the act. As a central feature Humanitarian intervention involves the threat and use of military forces. It is an intervention in the sense that it entails interfering in the internal affairs of a state by sending military forces into the territory or airspace of a sovereign state that has not committed an act of aggression against another state
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Humanitarian intervention is the act of protecting people from degradation‚ deprivation and destruction physically‚ materially‚ socially and legally. The intervention is motivated by both altruistic humanitarian intentions and a philosophical paradigm that view individuals‚ communities and nation states as responsible to greater global ideals and humanity. Although the motivation to intervene and protect the rights of others is conceived or perceived as just‚ often the intention is obscured‚ at
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Title: ‘Discuss how response to a humanitarian disaster could be improved through vertical and horizontal collaboration between the various actors’ 1. PURPOSE 2. APPROACH 3. LIMITATIONS Firstly I will outline who the actual ‘actors’ involves in a humanitarian disaster are with the use of Kovács & Spens‚ 2007 diagram provided in our lecture notes. The whole idea of ‘Collaboration’ which has two separate dimensions: 1. Vertical collaboration i.e. between supplier sand customers
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o EWHA Woman’s university | Role of the media in shaping opinion in case of humanitarian interventions | Example of Somalia | | Mass Media and Society | June 2010 | ThesisThe way that TV news is creating emotion (through the power of images) in its audience is an essential element to understand how some humanitarian interventions have been decided | Summary Nowadays‚ communications come across boundaries‚ thus we can‚ more easily than never‚ be aware of what is happening in
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THE COMPLEXITY OF HUMANITARIAN AID AND DISASTER RELIEF IN LATIN AMERICA BY Michael Rea Advised by Dr. James Keese ANT 461‚ 462 Senior Project Social Sciences Department College of Liberal Arts CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY Spring 2013 Table of Contents Research Proposali Annotated Bibliographyii Outlinevi Abstract1 Introduction2 Actors in the Distribution of Latin American ‘Aid’3 U.S. Military’s Expanding Role in the Humanitarian Sector…………...6 The United States
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Critically examine the geopolitics of humanitarian aid within the 21st century. How have responses to famine changed over time and what are the key challenges to famine prevention today? Geopolitics have played a huge role in humanitarian aid in the current century. Because humanitarian aid is largely sponsored by western countries it poses a huge problem in the form of a “parochial form of theorizing"1 that supports the interests of the richest countries of the world. For the purpose of this essay
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