Designing A Humanitarian Supply Chain Resilience Model based on the Paradigm Model

Among the disasters, epidemics have destructive effects on human life and infrastructures and increase the demand for response to humanitarian aid. Governments and organizations are obliged to enter the field through humanitarian supply chains to provide further aid for these disorders. Resilience of the humanitarian supply chain can be a suitable solution to solve these problems. Therefore, the aim of this study was to find a paradigmatic model of the resilience of the humanitarian supply chain in epidemic diseases and to investigate the dimensions and relationships of this model.

The research method of this research is a combination of qualitative and quantitative. Based on this, using the data theory, the paradigm model of the resilience of the humanitarian supply chain was created in the organizations that provide humanitarian services. Then these relationships between the main categories were determined by the dematel method.

According to the results, the "strategies" category had more interaction (both in terms of effectiveness and in terms of effectiveness) than other categories. Also, the "intervening elements" category had the lowest dependence compared to the other categories according to the number of relations coming out of it, but the other categories have a strong dependence on it. Also, the "strategies" category has the most dependence on the other categories due to the number of relationships entering it, but the other categories have little dependence on it.