scholarly journals An assessment approach for non-governmental organizations in humanitarian relief logistics and an application in Turkey

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erkan CELIK ◽  
Alev TASKIN GUMUS
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Method ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
Interval Type ◽  
Relief Organizations

The ever-increasing natural disasters have been causing the loss of lives, properties and resources. By the preparedness and response ability of non-governmental organizations, it is aimed to minimize these losses. In this paper, first, the critical success factors of humanitarian relief logistics management operations are determined and categorized. Then, by considering these factors, a hybrid method that consists of trapezoidal interval type-2 fuzzy sets, AHP and TOPSIS, is proposed to evaluate emergency preparedness and response ability performance of non-governmental relief organizations. The proposed hybrid method is applied for non-governmental relief organizations in Turkey to evaluate their performance, and to the factors need to be improved for each determined organization.

scholarly journals Identification and prioritization of critical success factors in faith-based and non-faith-based organizations’ humanitarian supply chain

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Azmat ◽  
Muhammad Atif ◽  
Sebastian Kummer
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Humanitarian Supply Chain ◽  
Relief Organizations

AbstractIn the last few decades, an exponential increase in the number of disasters, and their complexity has been reported, which ultimately put much pressure on relief organizations. These organizations cannot usually respond to the disaster on their own, and therefore, all actors involved in relief efforts should have end-to-end synchronization in order to provide relief effectively and efficiently. Consequently, to smoothen the flow of relief operation, a shared understanding of critical success factors in humanitarian supply chain serves as a pre-requisite for successful relief operation. Therefore, any member of the humanitarian supply chain might disrupt this synchronization by neglecting one or several of these critical success factors. However, in this study, we try to investigate how faith-based and non-faith-based relief organizations treat these critical success factors. Moreover, we also try to identify any differences between Islamic and Christian relief organizations in identifying and prioritizing these factors. To achieve the objective of this study, we used a two-stage approach; in the first stage, we collected the critical success factors from existing humanitarian literature. Whereas, in the second stage, using an online questionnaire, we collected data on the importance of selected factors from humanitarian relief organizations from around the world in collaboration with World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO). Later, responses were analyzed to answer the research questions using non-parametric Binomial and Wilcoxon Rank-Sum tests. Test results indicate that for RQ1, two but all factors are significant for successful relief operation. For RQ2, we found significant differences for some CSF among faith-based and non-faith-based relief organizations. Similarly for RQ3, we found significant differences for some CSF among Islamic and Christian relief organizations.

Editorial: Knowing when and how to disengage humanitarian response

Waterlines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 142-143
Author(s):  
Richard Carter
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Humanitarian Response ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Set Up

The machinery of international humanitarian response, once triggered and functioning in a country, has a life of its own. A multiplicity of United Nations agencies and international non-governmental organizations set up their programmes. The various sector- or subject-focused ‘clusters’, established to strengthen pre-emergency preparedness and operational coordination once an emergency has occurred, are activated. Humanitarian response plans are published, and appeals for funds made.

Enhancing Information Services through Public-Private Partnerships

2013 ◽  
pp. 15-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seok-Jin Eom ◽  
Jane E. Fountain
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Shared Information

What are e-government success factors for using public-private partnerships to enhance learning and capacity development? To examine this question, the authors developed a comparative case analysis of the development of the Business Reference Model (BRM), a national-level e-government initiative to promote shared information services, in the U.S. federal government and the Korean central government. The results indicate institutional arrangements deeply affect the outcomes of knowledge transfer. The study shows that private sector partners in both countries played various roles as “brokers” of information technology (IT) knowledge between government and the private sector by: raising awareness of the necessity of the BRM; providing best practices; developing pilot projects; and developing implementation strategies. However, the study finds that the two countries took entirely different approaches to working with non-governmental organizations in BRM development with implications for project success and lessons for e-government success. The study is meant to deepen understanding of the embeddedness of public-private partnerships in institutional contexts and the implications of such institutional arrangements for knowledge sharing on e-government success. The study examines knowledge transfer in the context of similarities and differences in partnership structures across two advanced industrialized countries with leading roles in e-governance.

scholarly journals Moral Experience of Canadian Healthcare Professionals in Humanitarian Work

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 518-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
Moral Experience ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Relief Work ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Humanitarian Work ◽  
Canadian Healthcare

AbstractIntroduction:Expatriate healthcare professionals frequently participate in international relief operations that are initiated in response to disasters due to natural hazards or humanitarian emergencies in low resource settings. This practice environment is significantly different from the healthcare delivery environment in the home countries of expatriate healthcare professionals. Human rights, public health, medicine, and ethics intersect in distinct ways as healthcare professionals provide care and services in communities affected by crisis.Purpose:The purpose of this study was to explore the moral experience of Canadian healthcare professionals during humanitarian relief work.Methods:This is a qualitative study with 18 semi-structured individual interviews based on Interpretive Description methodology. There are two groups of participants: (1) 15 healthcare professionals (nine doctors, five nurses, and one midwife) with more than three months experience in humanitarian work; and (2) three individuals who have experience as human resource or field coordination officers for humanitarian, non-governmental organizations. Participants were recruited by contacting non-governmental organizations, advertisement at the global health interest group of a national medical society, word of mouth, and a snowball sampling approach in which participants identified healthcare professionals with experience practicing in humanitarian settings who might be interested in the research.Results:Five central themes were identified during the analysis: (1) examination of motivations and expectations; (2) the relational nature of humanitarian work; (3) attending to steep power imbalances; (4) acknowledging and confronting the limits of what is possible in a particular setting; and (5) recognition of how organizational forms and structures shape everyday moral experience.Discussion:Humanitarian relief work is a morally complex activity. Healthcare professionals who participate in humanitarian relief activities, or who are contemplating embarking on a humanitarian project, will benefit from carefully considering the moral dimensions of this work. Humanitarian organizations should address the moral experiences of healthcare professionals in staff recruitment, as they implement training prior to departure, and in supporting healthcare professionals in the field.

The Authority Trap

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah S. Stroup ◽  
Wendy H. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Multiple Audiences

Despite public favorability towards international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), most of these groups toil in total obscurity. A very few INGOs, active in human rights promotion, humanitarian relief, and environmental protection, do secure widespread authority in the form of deference from multiple audiences engaged in global politics. Having achieved this status as a “leading INGO,” however, they are trapped. To maintain their status and placate their many audiences, these leading INGOs advance incrementalist proposals and achieve “vanilla victories” - palatable to a wide array of audiences, but also unremarkable. Meanwhile, other INGOs’ strategies are similarly shaped by their status: they are free to issue harsh condemnations and advance radical proposals, but these generally get ignored. Stroup and Wong offer the first exploration of the vast differences among INGOs in their authority, and then explore how status shapes INGO strategies as they seek to influence states, corporations, and one another.

Maximizing Participation of Hispanic Community-Based/Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos) in Emergency Preparedness

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati ◽  
Jennifer Unger ◽  
Cecilia Portugal ◽  
Jane L. Delgado ◽  
Adolph Falcon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Hispanic Community

E-Justice in Administrative Process

2015 ◽  
pp. 1220-1245
Author(s):  
Tatjana Bilevičienė ◽  
Eglė Bilevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Right

Social technologies are slowly occupying the central place of available and emerging solution for a variety of socio-economic problems. Although not a panacea, it cannot be overemphasized that social technologies have an influence on the social effects of humans, social groups, hierarchical social structures (such as public administrations, local authorities, non-governmental organizations, etc.), and behaviour. Of late, there has been an escalation in the use of social technologies in the legal fraternity. The Lithuanian government has started putting in place interventions that promote the utilization of social technologies into legal administrative processes. This came after the realization that Lithuanian citizens have the right to full and truthful information about administrative law and administrative processes. Using extensive literature reviews, this chapter probes the key success factors that need to be considered in the successful utilization of social technologies in legal administrative processes. The chapter posits that within the e-Government realm, the opportunities to be amassed from the use of Information and Communication Technologies are immense.

E-Justice in Administrative Process

2014 ◽  
pp. 322-347
Author(s):  
Tatjana Bilevičienė ◽  
Eglė Bilevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Right

Social technologies are slowly occupying the central place of available and emerging solution for a variety of socio-economic problems. Although not a panacea, it cannot be overemphasized that social technologies have an influence on the social effects of humans, social groups, hierarchical social structures (such as public administrations, local authorities, non-governmental organizations, etc.), and behaviour. Of late, there has been an escalation in the use of social technologies in the legal fraternity. The Lithuanian government has started putting in place interventions that promote the utilization of social technologies into legal administrative processes. This came after the realization that Lithuanian citizens have the right to full and truthful information about administrative law and administrative processes. Using extensive literature reviews, this chapter probes the key success factors that need to be considered in the successful utilization of social technologies in legal administrative processes. The chapter posits that within the e-Government realm, the opportunities to be amassed from the use of Information and Communication Technologies are immense.

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