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Publication date: 10 November 2020

Supply chain risks in humanitarian relief operations: a case of Cyclone Idai relief efforts in Zimbabwe

Felix Chari, Bethuel Sibongiseni Ngcamu and Cawe Novukela

The rising threat of tropical cyclones in Zimbabwe is of great importance in establishing the general sources of humanitarian supply chain risks and assessing their…

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Purpose

The rising threat of tropical cyclones in Zimbabwe is of great importance in establishing the general sources of humanitarian supply chain risks and assessing their negative impact on relief operations. There is a scarcity of studies that collate such evidence toward enhanced humanitarian supply chains in Southern Africa. With this in mind, this study explored scattered evidence on supply chain risks in the delivery of humanitarian aid to victims of Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe.

Design/methodology/approach

This reflective study evaluates supply chain risks associated with Cyclone Idai humanitarian relief operations through qualitative in-depth interviews with relevant actors in the field. The data were triangulated with secondary information from associated publications, blogs and newspapers to reflect the truth about the phenomena under investigation.

Findings

The results show that Cyclone Idai disaster response operations were adversely affected by social, economic and political/governmental risk factors. In the same breath, poor or inadequate infrastructure and environmental factors were also contributing factors toward the futility of humanitarian relief operations.

Practical implications

This study is significant as it endeavors to contribute toward humanitarian supply chain management, specifically in assisting humanitarian organizations with suggested strategies that would work toward making humanitarian relief supply chains more resilient. However, more research needs to be done toward optimized implementation strategies for the suggested framework.

Originality/value

It is to the best knowledge of these researchers that this is a unique study carried out to examine humanitarian supply chain risk factors in Cyclone Idai relief operations in Zimbabwe.

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Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, vol. 11 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JHLSCM-12-2019-0080
ISSN: 2042-6747

Keywords

  • Cyclone
  • Cyclone Idai
  • Humanitarian
  • Relief
  • Disaster risk management
  • Supply chain management

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Publication date: 1 March 1992

SUMMARY OF RESULTS FOR BENCHMARK PROBLEM 13 (3‐D NONLINEAR MAGNETOSTATIC MODEL)

Takayoshi NAKATA and Koji FUJIWARA

Benchmark problem 13 of the TEAM Workshop consists of steel plates around a coil (a nonlinear magnetostatic problem). Seventeen computer codes developed by twelve groups…

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Benchmark problem 13 of the TEAM Workshop consists of steel plates around a coil (a nonlinear magnetostatic problem). Seventeen computer codes developed by twelve groups are applied, and twenty‐five solutions are compared with each other and with experimental results. In addition to the numerical calculations, two theoretical presentations are given in order to explain discrepancies between the calculations and the experiment.

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COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 11 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010097
ISSN: 0332-1649

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