Abstract

Humanitarian supply and logistics management (HSLM) is becoming an important research area for governments and relief aid operational managers in developing successful practices in disaster management. It is vital for humanitarian operations to deal with the probable challenges to HSLM for operational excellence by focussing on sustainability. Therefore, the prime contribution of this article is to identify key challenges to HSLM and to analyze causal relationships between these challenges for developing sustainability in relief operations in a developing economy– the Indian perspective. The listed key challenges were analyzed using explanatory factor analysis and decision making trial and evaluation laboratory analysis. A total of 136 responses were received from Indian humanitarian sector respondents. From findings, ‘Governance and regulatory’; ‘Technology and Facilities’ and ‘Strategic’ challenges are the cause group challenges. This research is invaluable for practitioners, policymakers, NGOs and communities in bringing synergies between humanitarian operations and operational excellence to accomplish sustainability orientation in systems.

摘要

人道主义供应和物流管理 (HSLM) 正在成为政府和救援行动管理人员开发灾害管理成功实践的重要研究领域。对于人道主义行动而言，通过关注可持续性来应对 HSLM 可能面临的卓越运营挑战至关重要。因此，本文的主要贡献是确定 HSLM 面临的主要挑战，并分析这些挑战之间的因果关系，以在发展中经济体中发展救援行动的可持续性——印度的观点。使用解释性因素分析和决策试验和评估实验室分析对列出的关键挑战进行了分析。印度人道主义部门的受访者共收到 136 份回复。根据调查结果，“治理和监管”；“技术和设施”和“战略”挑战是事业群挑战。这项研究对于从业者、政策制定者、非政府组织和社区来说是非常宝贵的，因为它们可以在人道主义行动和卓越运营之间产生协同作用，以实现系统中的可持续性导向。