Procurement and Logistics in Humanitarian

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UN Procurement and Logistics in Humanitarian Crisis on the Case of Rohignya Refugee
Crisis in Cox Bazaar, Bangladesh
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Table of Content
1. Introduction and Background.................................................................................................3
2. Problem Statement.................................................................................................................4
3. Research Purpose...................................................................................................................4
4. Research Questions................................................................................................................5
5. Research Aim and Objectives................................................................................................5
6. Research Methodology...........................................................................................................6
7. Ethical Consideration.............................................................................................................8
8. Significance of the Research..................................................................................................8
9. Research Timeline..................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

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Project Background
Refugee crisis refers to a problematic situation occurs in a country due to large number of
cross border humanitarian migration. This crisis is associated with availability of supply of
foods, accommodations, health services and other major survival components. It always
becomes difficult for the recipient countries to facilitate adequately for the refugees. United
Nations High Commissioners for Refugees or UNHCR was founded on 1950 by United
Nation as a supporting association for the global refugees (Ungm.org 2018). The role of
UNHCR is to protect and support the refugees after having a request form the recipient
country. UNHCR can also take initiation to protect and support refugees by themselves for
assisting the voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. The
support ranged from logistical support and subsidising the government for a permanent
solution from them on a non-political and humanitarian basis.
In 2015 people form Rohingya ethnic background forcible displaced from Rakhine state of
Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh. Most of them fleet from their land by boat collectively
named by “boat people” (Ahsan Ullah 2016). Along with Bangladesh, fled people were also
travelled to other Southeast Asian Countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand by using
Malacca and the Andaman Sea. As per the estimation of United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees around 25,000 people have been taken to boats from January to March in 2015
by migrant smugglers (Prasse‐Freeman 2017). Approximately 700000 Rohingya driven from
their homes and most of the Rohingya villagers fled to refugee camps across the Bangladesh
border. A huge number of Rohingya camps have been developed in Cox’s Bazar and nearby
areas. The government of Bangladesh trying to facilitated the Cox’s Bazar area with
healthcare clinics, food supply and survival goods. Several vaccination campaigns are being
executed from past 5 years in that area that includes both local Bangladeshi and Rohingya

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people (who.int 2019). The representative of World Health Organisation Dr Bardan Jung
Rana is directly coordinating the subsidisation operations from the United Nations High
Commissioners for Refugees or UNHCR. Healthcare service support with adequate
workforce and supplies for the people of this area is becoming challenging for the
Bangladesh government (Parnini, Othman and Ghazali 2013). As it has been discussed earlier
that United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees or UNHCR needs to execute
subsiding operation for this area, logistical analysis and the procurement strategy could help
to identify the gaps or limitations in the logistics and procurement systems executed by
Bangladesh government and UNHCR for the Cox’s Bazar area.
Literature Review
Supply chain management refers to the procedure of keeping the flow of goods from the
gathering the goods from other organisations to transforming the good into the final products
and supplying the products to the end users. Hence the procedures includes three major steps
procurement, processing and distribution. Procurement is a key activity of supply chain that
implies the activity of gathering raw material from sources which includes inbound logistics
model as well (undp.org 2015). Logistics is a mechanical flow of goods with the help of
transportation and other locomotive equipment. For long rout or offshore cargo transportation
water-based, and air-based transportations are used. On the other hand, for local and national
level cargo transportation, land-based cargo trucks or vans are used. In procurement operation
the inbound logistic model is used where the flow of goods is directed towards the production
hubs where the goods are assembled and processed to develop products (Dlca.logcluster.org
2020). The effectiveness procurement procedure in terms of quality and cost is highly
dependent on the quality of sources, cost of procurement and integration of sources. If the
quality of the sources is high the quality of procurement will be also high and similarly if the