1. Supply Chain Partnerships
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2. Lesson Plan: Supply Chain Partnerships
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Describe the difference between commercial and humanitarian supply chains
Describe when to outsource logistics services
Describe of the role and capabilities of partners
Structure
Timing
Activities
Introduction
5 minutes
Explain lesson objectives
Commercial Supply Chain Management
20 minutes
Video: Introduce supply chain management from commercial perspective of managing partnerships. Discuss how this compares to humanitarian supply chains
Philippines Example
10 minutes
Outline the structure of the Philippines Government food response to Typhoon Haiyan. Identify partners involved; the benefits of the setup and its constraints.
Private Sector and Outsourcing
What types of logistics services can be outsourced to the private sector; benefits and risks of doing so and what to consider when doing so.
Role and capabilities of militaries and local actors
Outline the role and capabilities of national militaries play in emergencies. Enlisting local NGO’s and community groups to augment operational capacity
Exercise: Case Studies
15 minutes
Working with the military, district administration and community groups
Lesson End/Plenary
EVALUATION / RECAP QUESTIONS:
The facilitator should ask the questions below, or similar questions to the class to recap the lesson to ensure participants have understood the lesson content.
Under what conditions would you expect to work with militaries?
Which circumstances would you expect to work with local community groups?
When would you want to outsource the warehousing function to a private provider?
Total Lesson Length
90 minutes
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3. Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to: 1
Describe the difference between commercial and humanitarian supply chains 2
Describe when to outsource logistics services 3
Describe of the role and capabilities of key partners

4. Example: Philippines Emergency Supply Chain
National Food Authority
Repacking Centre
Commercial
suppliers
MSWD
Town Halls
Barangay
Captains

5. Outsourcing to Private Sector Partners
Relief Goods
Distribution
Your agency’s Warehouse
Your agency’s transport
Relief Goods
Distribution
Privately run Warehouse
Privately run transport

6. Private Sector as Humanitarian Actors
Corporate Social
Responsibility
Example:
Logistics Emergency
Team (LET)
Examples from
your country?

7. Domestic Partners
Consider each of the following groups. What is the benefit of working with them? What are the challenges?
National military forces
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Municipal and district government bodies
Local community groups and NGO’s

8. Working with the Military
Opportunities
Logistics Capacity and Infrastructure
Security and safety
Access to beneficiaries
Challenges
Protecting Humanitarian Principles
Coordination
Competition for resources

9. Military Partners and Humanitarian Space
What is meant by the term ‘Humanitarian Space’?
Availability & Impartiality of Forces Decrease
Mission of
Military
Peace Support or Peace Operation
Peaceful
Combat
Peace-
keeping
Peace
Enforcement
Humanitarian
Tasks
Direct
Maybe No
Visibility
of Task
Decreases
Indirect
Yes
Infrastructure
Support

10. Implications on Partnerships
Military Culture and
Implications on Partnerships
General Organizational Culture
Implications on Meeting Management
Coordination and Information Sharing
Operational impact of the Mission
Deployment and Support Requirements

11. Exercise: Working with the Military
Case Study 1
The Mewong Armed Forces are transporting your agency’s relief goods to the town of Tonle, but you have just been informed you need to divert some items instead to the town of Nakhon.
You ask the head of the marines if he can accommodate your request, but he says Nakhon falls under the command of a different unit, he has no authority to travel there.
What do you do?
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12. Exercise: Working with District Administrators
Case Study 2
You have agreed a distribution plan to be implemented by the local district administrations.
The plan requires one of the administrations, Rach Chuen, to have at least 6 trucks for transport of cargo from the town hall to the distribution sites on each day of the distributions.
On the first day of distributions you discover the office only has access to 2 trucks.
What do you do?
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Recap Lesson
Questions: 1
What are some of the Coordination Challenges between Humanitarian Actors?
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Who are the Main Actors and their roles in the Logistics Cluster?

14. Questions
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