Tag: HELP Forum
A medic’s view of humanitarian logistics in Haiti
Now is clearly the time for reflection on the logistics operations during the response to the Haiti earthquake in January this year (see my posts on articles by Mike Whiting and Maggie Heraty). Dr. Paul S. Auerbach is Professor of Surgery in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. A few […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: Haiti, HELP Forum, Humanitarian Logistics, logistics, Retail Supply Chain
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Haiti emergency logistics from the ground
More interesting stuff in Focus (shock, horror!) In the May 2010 edition Maggie Heraty describes what she saw and experienced while on mission with RedR. Maggie arrived in Haiti just over three weeks after the earthquake to identify training needs for NGO staff in the immediate disaster response phase, and longer term looking at recovery […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: CILT, Haiti, HELP Forum, Humanitarian Logistics, logistics
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Haiti earthquake logistics lessons
Mike Whiting has written an excellent article on the emergency response to January’s Haiti earthquake in the April 2010 edition of Logistics and Transport Focus. My copy of Focus often languishes in the in-tray for a couple of weeks before I even get the plastic wrap off, but I’d urge all CILT members to read […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: CILT, Haiti, HELP Forum, Humanitarian Logistics, logistics
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More on the Nargis air operation in Logistics and Transport Focus
I forgot to mention in my post yesterday about last week’s HELP Forum meeting that Mike Whiting has also written about the air operation during Nargis, both the air-bridge from Bangkok and the helicopter operation in-country. Mike was OiC for Aviation for the Logs Cluster, so this is an authoritative account. You can find his […]
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Tags: CILT, Distribution, HELP Forum, Humanitarian Logistics
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Cyclone Nargis and the Sichuan earthquake: emergency logistics coordination and the politics of paperwork
The CILT‘s Humanitarian and Emergencies Logistics Professionals (HELP) Forum met again on Tuesday last week (28 Oct 2008). It was another interesting session, so I thought I would post a brief report (with a long title). My apologies if I have mangled any of the following in transcribing my notes. For those that don’t know, […]
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Tags: Agility, CILT, Cyclone Nargis, disaster relief, Global Logistics Cluster, HELP Forum, Humanitarian Logistics, Logistics Emergency Teams, Save the Children, Sichuan earthquake, tsunami
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