INFORMATION SHARING AND HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS BY September 27‚ 2012 Introduction In today’s information sharing data has been a critical piece of the puzzle for the success of businesses‚ governments and non-government organizations. The purpose behind information sharing is to provide information to others‚ proactively or upon request which can aid in effective decision making. The article chosen discusses information sharing problems within Humanitarian organizations. It asks the
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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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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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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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Goodhart mentions deliver and distribute aid directly to the refugee and displacement camps. But the fundamental problem is far from being solved. Since the birth of humanitarian intervention theory‚ Western policy makers have been trying to magnify the understanding of the use of force under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. They prone to take the excuse of "threaten international peace and security" to require the UN Council for voting for some specious humanitarian event‚ which finally give pass to intervene
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Laura Vassalli 7118763 Professor Alison Brysk Global Studies 111 12 December 2012 HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN CONGO The conflict in Congo is one of the worst of our contemporary history in terms of casualties and human rights violations. Since the beginning of the civil war in 1996 about 5.400.000 million people died. “The wars in that country have claimed nearly the same number of lives as having a 9/11 every single day for 360 days‚ the genocide that struck Rwanda in 1994‚ the ethnic cleansing
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today is the epidemic of AIDS. As a consistent killer throughout the world‚ AIDS has become an immediate concern to agencies and governments worldwide. In response‚ there are numerous international organizations that have been established to learn more about preventing‚ tracking‚ and treating the disease. Through extensive research and analysis‚ AIDS researchers are making gradual breakthroughs to benefit the struggle. However‚ since there is currently no cure for AIDS‚ researchers are rapidly
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Syria’s twenty-one-month old political and humanitarian crisis does not seem to show any sign of progress. Hundreds of people‚ including women and children‚ are slaughtered every week in what the international community describes as a «massacre» of the syrian population. The establishment of human rights as a key component of international politics has allowed external actors to scrutinize and judge Assad regime’s poor treatment of its own people. Assad’s response has been one of inflexible negation‚
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Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia In December of 1992‚ the United States military landed in Somalia. The Somali civil war caused a famine that claimed the lives of three hundred thousand people and threatened the lives of two million more. As word of these gross human rights violations spread‚ the media and general public pressured the government into taking action in Somalia. Subsequently‚ with the United Nations’ consent‚ twenty-eight thousand soldiers were deployed to put an end to the
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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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