FMR 18 : published September 2003

Delivering the goods: rethinking humanitarian logistics

Contents

Why logistics? by Anisya Thomas

The academic side of commercial logistics and the importance of this special issue by Ricardo Ernst

Humanitarian logistics: context and challenges by Lars Gustavsson

A logistician's plea by John Rickard

Towards improved logistics: challenges and questions for logisticians and managers by Donald Chaikin

UN Joint Logistics Centre: a coordinated response to common humanitarian logistics concerns by David B Kaatrud, Ramina Samii and Luk N Van Wassenhove

The central role of supply chain management at IFRC by Bernard Chomilier, Ramina Samii and Luk N Van Wassenhove

The World Food Programme: augmenting logistics by Peter Scott-Bowden

Logistics under pressure: UNICEF's Back to School programme in Afghanistan by Paul Molinaro and Sandi Blanchet

Coordination in the Great Lakes by George Fenton

Lean logistics: delivering food to northern Ugandan IDPs by Margaret Vikki and Erling Bratheim

Food aid logistics and the southern Africa emergency by Jon Bennett

The humanitarian use of the military by Rupert Wieloch

Marrying logistics and technology for effective relief by H Wally Lee and Marc Zbinden

Humanitarian mapping by Rupert Douglas-Bate

Complex emergency - complex finance? by Guy Hovey and Diana Landsman

General articles

PRTs - guaranteeing or undermining a secure future in Afghanistan? by Paul O'Brien

Post-literacy for refugees and IDPs in Sudan by Hashim Abuzeid, Naomi Lockwood, Rashida Abdel Mutalib and Tony Wrightson

Promises without solutions: Iraqi refugees left in the lurch in Lebanon by Bashir Osmat, Michael Kagan and Samira Trad

Settling refugee disputes in Iran by Fatemeh Keyhanlou, Hani Mansourian and Negar Azimi

The EU and asylum: towards strategies to reduce conflict and human rights abuses in countries of origin by Stephen Castles, Heaven Crawley and Sean Loughna

Debate

Internal displacement in Afghanistan ends for some, not for others by Sarah Petrin

Response to FMR 16 article on Sudanese refugees in Cairo

Regular features

Update

RSC: 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' and its phantom million Iraqi refugees plus Kabul kids

Global IDP Project: Enhancing camp management for displaced people

UNHCR EPAU: Why do we know so little about refugees?

Brookings-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement: Civil society initiatives