Category: ESUPS news
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Join ESUPS at HNPW 2024
We are excited to announce our participation in the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW), from 29 April to 10 May 2024. At HNPW each year, the humanitarian community comes together to address common challenges. This year will be another opportunity to build connections that lead to better outcomes. HNPW will again be conducted in…
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Taking stock: evaluating the ESUPS approach to prepositioning
As the humanitarian gap grows wider, we must find better ways to meet needs across the globe. ESUPS is undertaking an evaluation of the approach and the mechanism we use for facilitating the optimization of stock prepositioning, the STOCKHOLM platform. To complete this evaluation, ESUPS has partnered with researchers from the Center for Humanitarian Logistics…
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Survey: The future of stock pre-positioning and coordination
The ESUPS project invites the humanitarian logistics community and its stakeholders to participate in an important survey. The survey is aimed at assessing current stock pre-positioning and coordination practices within humanitarian organization, UN agency, private sector, academia, governments, institutional donors and other entities. As part of our ongoing efforts to advance the goals of the…
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Report: Unbranded stock and loan-borrowing policies for time and cost efficiency in humanitarian crises
As humanitarian organizations continue to face ever-increasing needs but limited funding, humanitarian logistics must trust in new ways to collaborate and become more efficient. BONN, 08/11/2023 – Today, the Emergency Supply Pre-positioning Strategy (ESUPS) project released the first research of its kind, which aims to change the mindset of humanitarian organizations towards greater collaboration and…
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STOCKHOLM update: Latest features July 2023
In the last few months, STOCKHOLM users have grown to 281, from 119 agencies across 53 countries. Considering their feedback and requests, ESUPS and a team of developers at Tonkin & Taylor have been focusing on enhancing users experience and access to STOCKHOLM platform. Here is an overview of the latest improvements and features since…
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Case study on ESUPS published by Gurobi Optimization
A core section of ESUPS’ STOCKHOLM platform is the “National stock analysis” dashboard. All STOCKHOLM users have access to the dashboard. As you can see in the preview above, the information displayed is filtered by countries and is collective in nature. The platform analyses all pre-positioned stock in a country, irrespective of which agency holds…
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ESUPS at HNPW 2023: summary and recording of joint session
From May 24 to 28, ESUPS team and colleagues from Welthungerhilfe participated in the face-to-face week of the annual Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) in Geneva. On May 25, ESUPS co-hosted a session in collaboration with International Humanitarian City, IMPACCT, the Logistics Cluster and UNCTAD. The aim of the session was to demonstrate the interoperability among four…
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ESUPS at HNPW 2023
Once again, the annual HNPW (Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks) is approaching. The event will be held in a hybrid format from 17 to 28 April: 17-21 April remotely, 24-28 April face-to-face at the CICG in Geneva. With over 200 face-to-face sessions and over 60 remote sessions scheduled so far, the event programme covers critical…
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ESUPS survey 2023
The Emergency Supply Pre-positioning Strategy (ESUPS) project is starting a new phase of development for the next two years, thanks to the support of USAID – Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance. After significant progress since its inception in 2018, more specifically in the last year with the growing of STOCKHOLM platform, we would like to ensure…
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How disaster data inform ESUPS recommendations on collective pre-positioning
Disaster data are one of the variables that inform ESUPS recommendations on stock pre-positioning strategies in a country. The disaster profile of a country has an important impact when it comes to identifying the most and least urgent relief items that should be available in order to be prepared before a disaster strikes. It also…