Managing Humanitarian Innovation

Name: Managing Humanitarian Innovation
Brand: Practical Action Publishing
SKU: 9781853399534
Price: 70.23 EUR
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Автор: Eric James, Abigail Taylor

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Издател: Practical Action Publishing

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The challenges facing humanitarian logistics are huge. Refugee camps present enormously challenging...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Eric James, Abigail Taylor

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2018

страници

172

EAN

9781853399534

ISBN

9781853399534

Enbook ID

15540032

Издател

Practical Action Publishing

Теглоt

596

Размери

241 x 164 x 23

Пълно описание

The challenges facing humanitarian logistics are huge. Refugee camps present enormously challenging environments in which sudden spikes in demand, difficult to access locations, disruptions due to conflict or disasters, as well as normal supply chain problems are commonplace. This means that orders for medical and other supplies can take weeks and sometimes months to fulfil, severely impeding humanitarian operations. There is also a lack of or slow adoption of technology routinely used elsewhere. In addition, humanitarian logistics are also expensive. When customs clearance, transportation, storage, middlemen and administration are added in, the costs of basic items are often exorbitant.

Managing Humanitarian Innovation presents a new approach that is beginning to transform the way humanitarian logistics are conducted. Innovation in logistics includes disrupting and improving supply chains through the use of technology, especially 3D printers, and engaging people to manage this approach. The book discusses what innovation is, and strategies for supporting it; it describes practical innovations and how they have been applied; and it outlines how innovation labs can be run. Finally it covers how to fund innovation and it suggests how humanitarian innovation might develop in the future.

This book brings together the real experience of practitioners who have made innovation work. It is a collaborative work written by and for the community of people involved in humanitarian innovation, in particular in the making and manufacturing of humanitarian supplies. The book is full of practical and actionable points of value to the humanitarian community.

Managing Humanitarian Innovation is essential reading for humanitarian practitioners as well as volunteers and others involved in humanitarian supplies provision. It is equally helpful to thought leaders, policy makers and educators.

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