Humanitarian & Emergency Logistics Professionals (HELP) Forum

Chairman: Mike Whiting FCILT

The Humanitarian & Emergency Logistics Professionals (HELP) is a forum within the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (CILT).

We are a group of dedicated logistics and transport practitioners who want to raise the professional status and enhance the professionalism of humanitarian logistics.

HELP’s membership is drawn from the Chartered Institutes of Logistics across the world as well as over 300 other organisations, associations, businesses and centres of learning.

HELP does not run its own humanitarian programmes or provide logistics capability directly, but many of our members work as humanitarian logisticians in a wide variety of agencies.

HELP is here to:

• Support the work of all humanitarian logisticians
• Facilitate access to training and professional development
• Identify, celebrate and share best practice
• Develop standards, tools and techniques

HELP has a working group which has been developing a Humanitarian Logistics Needs Assessment Template (HELPNAT). We are working with the United Nations Logistics Cluster and a number of other leading IGOs and NGOs to determine the content and format of Logistics Capacity Assessments (LCAs) and Humanitarian Logistics Needs Assessments.

The HELPNAT working group are also looking at the tools and process needed to share and update the assessment data across multiple agencies and link into humanitarian logistics management systems such as SAHANA and HELIOS.

If you are interested in finding out more about this working group please contact Dave Luddington.

Events

• Forthcoming HELP Forum events

Output

• Presentations and information
• Humanitarian Logisticians Job Description Workshop

Links

• redr uk
• SAHANA
• The HUMLOG Group
• Transaid
• United Nations Logistics Cluster
• Dubai International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference & Exhibition - DIHAD 2008

Webshop

The following book(s) may be of interest to you and can be purchased from Webshop Extra today!  

• Gambling On Humanitarian Intervention

Contacts

General: contact the Institute for more information on the Humanitarian & Emergency Logistics Professionals (HELP) Forum.

Further information: add me to the HELP mailing list - if you would like to be added to the HELP mailing list, please provide an email address.