Logistics challenges in developing countries: An analyis of Burkina Faso´s national plan for disaster prevention and response

Author

Sienou, Amadou ; Karduck, Achim P.

Author_Institution

Abamix Consulting, R&D of Bus. Solutions, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Developing countries regularly face disasters such as aridity, epidemic, deluge, and mass migration. Some of these countries developed national program for disaster prevention and response. However, observations show deployment and implementation lacks in many national programs. A study of the special case of Burkina Faso provided useful information to humanitarian logistics challenges that could be addressed with suitable digital ecosystems. This contribution is a position paper addressing this issue.

Keywords

disasters; emergency services; logistics; Burkina Faso national plan analysis; aridity disaster; deluge disaster; developing countries; digital ecosystems; disaster prevention; disaster response; epidemic disaster; humanitarian logistics challenges; mass migration disaster; Disaster management; Face; Information systems; Knowledge based systems; Supply chains; Transportation; enterprsie integration; humanitarian logistics; information system; risk; supply chain; sustainable development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Ecosystems Technologies (DEST), 2012 6th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Campione d´Italia

ISSN

2150-4938

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1702-3

Electronic_ISBN

2150-4938

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEST.2012.6227938

Filename

6227938