Below are the challenges that have been identified and ways to address them in a proactive manner.
| Challenge: |
Lack of standards and indicators |
| Opportunity: |
Create objective measures of performance (effectiveness) Establish baseline and make improvements towards established standards. |
| Approach: |
Identify 4 key performance indicators:
- Speed
- Quality
- Efficiency
- Cost
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| Action Item: |
Check appropriateness of the four indicators and feed it back to online WebForum.
Communicate other ideas about this approach. |
| Challenge: |
Inadequate training |
| Opportunity: |
Improve professional recognition
Achieve higher level of competency |
| Approach: |
Training-certification initiative, utilizing a phased approach to
- Benchmark private and NGO best practice
- Establish baseline
- Efficiency
- Get buy-in from community
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| Challenge: |
Need to create a network within and external to organization
Lack of collaboration |
| Opportunity: |
Address duplication of efforts
Benchmark, identify best practices among humanitarian organizations, academia and the private sector
Rationalize systems for maximum efficiency |
| Approach: |
Build upon already existing initiatives, such as
- Humanitarian Logistics Conference in Geneva, Africa
- Training-certification initiative
- Crossroads Conference
- Interagency Logistics Group Nairobi
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| Challenge: |
Recognition of logistics |
| Opportunity: |
Create awareness and show impact of humanitarian logistics |
| Approach: |
Build upon initiatives that are supported by community
- Publications
- Research and case studies
- Conferences and workshops, such as Humanitarian Logistics Conference
Offer standardized training, which helps build professional competence and allows for a clear definition of logistics
By establishing indicators, the impact of the above points can be strengthened.
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| Challenge: |
Inadequate infrastructure |
| Opportunity: |
In an environment where government/donors are not going to improve infrastructure in the short run, what can logisticians do to optimize?
Take advantage of positive outcomes of above approaches to challenges identified |
| Approach: |
Improve level of collaboration among stakeholders
If you are better trained, are you able to cope better?
Strengthen network, including government
Planning
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