Resource Library
Websites
- UNICEF Cold Chain Technical Support
- WHO Performance, Quality and Safety (PQS)
- Cold Chain Evaluation, MSF
- Overseas Development Institute (ODI), General Food Distribution in Emergencies
- IASC Gender and NFI in Emergencies
- The Cash Learning Partnership
- PARCEL Project
- Humanitarian Logistics Association
- Core Humanitarian Standards
- Sphere Project, Handbook (2018)
- Universal Logistics Standards (ULS) Handbook
- ICAO Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air
- CARE Emergency Toolkit: Logistics
- ACAPS Needs Assessment Guidance and Tools
- Map Action
- Crisis Mappers
- IOM Emergency Operations Manual
- Fleet Forum
- Clean Fleet Toolkit
- UNECE Road Safety Special Envoy
- WHO Road Safety Strategies
- FIA Foundation
- UNHCR Commodity Distribution Guide
Document Library
- Customs Model Agreement Between UN and State
- Kyoto Convention. Cp. 5 Annex J - Relief Consignments
- Decommissioning and Safe Disposal of Cold Chain Equipment, 2018, UNICEF-WHO
- Delivering Vaccines: A Cost Comparison of In-Country Vaccine Transport Container Options, 2013, PATH-WHO
- Effective Vaccine Store Management Initiative, 2005, WHO-UNICEF
- Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) model standard operating procedures, 2013, WHO
- Guideline For Establishing Or Improving Primary And Intermediate Vaccine Stores, 2002, WHO
- Guidelines on the international packaging and shipping of vaccines, 2019, WHO
- How to calculate vaccine volumes and cold chain capacity requirements, 2017, WHO/IVB
- How to Monitor Temperatures in the Vaccine Supply Chain, 2015, WHO-IVB
- How to use passive containers and coolant-packs, 2015, WHO-IVB
- Immunization in practice: A practical guide for health staff. Geneva, 2015, WHO
- Introducing Solar-powered Vaccine refrigerator and freezer systems, A guide for managers in national immunization programmes, 2015, WHO
- Procurement Guidelines for Walk-In Cold Rooms And Freezer Rooms, 2020, UNICEF
- Procurement Guidelines, Compression System Refrigerators and Freezers, 2014, UNICEF
- Procurement Guidelines, Solar Direct Drive Refrigerators and Freezers, 2014, UNICEF
- Procurement Guidelines, Temperature Monitoring Devices, 2016, UNICEF
- Procurement Guidelines, Vaccine Carriers and Cold Boxes, 2016, UNICEF
- Study protocol for temperature monitoring in the vaccine cold chain, 2011, WHO-IVB
- Technical Report Series, No. 992, Annex 5, Supplement 12, Temperature-controlled transport operations by road and by air, 2015, WHO
- Thermostability of vaccines, 1998, WHO/GPV/98.07
- Total Cost of Ownership Tool for Cold Chain Equipment, 2019, PATH
- User’s handbook for vaccine cold rooms and freezer rooms, 2002, WHO
- IFRC Rapid Emergency Needs Assessment Guideline
- SPHERE, (2015). Sphere for Assessment
- IASC, (2015). Multisector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA) guidance. (English, French, Spanish)
- OCHA Assessment and Classification of Emergencies
- UNDAC, (2006). Disaster Assessment
- WFP, (2002). Emergency Field Operations Pocketbook
- UNHCR Handbook for Emergencies
- USAID (2005) Field operations Guide v4
- UNICEF, Emergency Field Handbook
- NRC, (2014). Humanitarian Needs Assessment, the Good Enough Guide
- ACAPS, (2013). Severity and Priority, their measurements in rapid needs assessments
- Sphere for Assessment Guide
- USAID, (2006). Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for Assessing Logistics Systems Performance.
- Davidson, Anne Leslie, (2006). Key Performance Indicator in the humanitarian Logistics
- Sustainable Procurement guidance for practitioners to sustainable procurement in World Bank IPF projects, World Bank, (2019)
- CIPS, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Chain, (2013). Ethical and sustainable procurement
- UN, United Nations, (2006) Procurement practitioners handbook
- UN WFP, Safe Management of Hazardous Waste in WFP Workshops (English, French)
- USAID BHA (2020), Sustainability in Humanitarian Supply Chains
- Global Logistics Cluster & Hanken University (2022), Waste management and Reverse Logistics in the Humanitarian Context
- WHO: “Save Lives” A Road Safety Technical Package
- Fleet Forum Occupational Road & Fleet Safety Guide
- UN Model Regulations, Rev. 12, 2001
- UN Dangerous Goods List
- Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Camp Management Tool Kit. Food distribution and Non-Food Items
- Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF) Pocket Guide NFI Distribution
- OXFAM NFI Distribution
- WFP Emergency Field Operations Pocketbook
- UNHCR Guidelines for Reducing Protection Risks in in-kind Distributions