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Allied Council for Commerce and Logistics conducts various courses with the help of private partnerships. ACCL provides scholarships to under privileged students seeking a career in shipping and logistics. Logistics education have been traditionally considered to be expensive and out of the reach for a majority of students from developing nations.
The basis for the current international humanitarian coordination system was set by General Assembly resolution 46/182 in December 1991 and extended in the Humanitarian Reform of 2005, with new elements to improve capacity, predictability, accountability, leadership, and partnership in humanitarian emergency missions.
Humanitarian logistics plays an integral role in disaster relief for several reasons. First, humanitarian logistics contributes immensely to mitigating the negative impact of natural disasters in terms of loss of life and economic costs. These losses occur in four different ways: Losses of buildings, highways and other infrastructure;
Collecting, analyzing and disseminating logistics information relevant to the ongoing humanitarian operation, Scheduling the movement of humanitarian cargo and relief workers within the crisis area, using commonly available transport assets, Managing the import, receipt, dispatch and tracking of non-assigned food and non-food relief commodities;
In line with the United Nations Reforms for better-coordinated development system and more effective humanitarian structures, UNHRD enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of humanitarian assistance, with the specific mandate to "assist the population living in countries affected by natural disasters or complex emergencies, through a ...
In 2017, 6,8 million people visited ReliefWeb. In the same year, the website published more than 57,000 reports and maps, 39,500 jobs in the humanitarian sector, and 2,600 training opportunities. [7] A first major re-design effort was started in 2002 and completed in 2005, which focused on implementing a more user-centric information ...
ReliefWeb, a leading source of time-critical humanitarian information on global crises and disasters. ReliefWeb is a 24/7 service that provides the latest reports, maps, infographics, and videos from trusted sources, as well as jobs and training programs for humanitarians. [12] (1996)
The Logistics Basic Officer Leader Course (LOG BOLC) for Quartermaster, Ordnance, and Transportation Second Lieutenants; the Logistics Captains Career Course (LOGC3); key functional courses like the Support Operations Course; and pre-command courses that prepare Lieutenant Colonels and Colonels to command logistics formations are conducted by ...