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Developing Individual Competencies for Humanitarian Logistics

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The continuing incidence of natural disasters, complex emergencies and their associated challenges has increased the demand for humanitarian logisticians. However, there is, as yet, a dearth of research on the essential competencies for those working in this role. This chapter therefore proposes a Humanitarian Logistics Competency Framework (HLCF) to assist in the professional development of humanitarian logisticians. The resultant framework can be used both as a way of enabling individual humanitarian logisticians to develop the necessary competencies to be successful at their current and future career levels, but also to enable humanitarian organisations to map their own competency frameworks to a common standard. This will, in turn, assist in workforce mobility and support the overall concept of a Certified Humanitarian Logistics Professional.

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  1. Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland

    Graham Heaslip

  2. Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

    Peter Tatham

  3. Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden

    Alain Vaillancourt

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  1. Hanken School of Economics , Helsinki, Finland

    Gyöngyi Kovács

  2. Hanken School of Economics , Helsinki, Finland

    Karen Spens

  3. Hanken School of Economics , Helsinki, Finland

    Mohammad Moshtari

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Heaslip, G., Tatham, P., Vaillancourt, A. (2018). Developing Individual Competencies for Humanitarian Logistics. In: Kovács, G., Spens, K., Moshtari, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59099-2_13

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