Humanitarian access is a crucial element of humanitarian action in situations armed conflict since it impossible to provide direct assistance without it. The right victims fundamental allows aid organizations make an independent assessment needs, ensure the effectiveness their activities and monitor fair distribution such aid. However, gaining maintaining population difficult for organizations....

The aid allocation literature explores the motives behind development aid assistance. This literature is enormous, yet surprisingly, the extant empirical studies have in the main only focused on the motives of established donors. Consequently, relatively little is known of the motives of new donors. This paper explores the aid allocation motives of three relatively new DAC donors: Greece, Luxem...

This paper empirically studies (i) forecasting emergency relief aid shipments and (ii) redesigning upstream humanitarian supply chains as means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response. The United States Agency for International Development provided unique data about its emergency food aid shipments over a period of about eleven years. We find that while it is not possib...

The paper analyzes the performance of different post-disaster humanitarian logistic structures that arose in response to the Port-au-Prince earthquake of January 12th, 2010. Based on field work conducted by the authors, the paper defines a typology of structures; assesses their relative performance in terms of delivering relief aid; and identifies the causes that explain the differences between...

INTRODUCTION According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 130 million people are in constant need of humanitarian assistance due to natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and conflicts, among other factors. These health crises can compromise the resilience of healthcare systems, which are essential for achieving the health objectives of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the U...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the relevant literature in order identify trends and suggest some possible directions for future research framework humanitarian aid distribution logistics with accessibility constraints. Design/methodology/approach authors developed a systematic study state art on considering electronic databases used were Web science, Scopus, Science Direct, Jsto...