Projects
HLA runs three advocacy programmes, each focused on a critical challenge in humanitarian logistics.
Each programme brings together sector experts to generate evidence through research and case studies, highlight best practice, and shape the policies, processes, and standards that determine how effectively aid reaches the people who need it.
Local Procurement Learning Partnership
Looks at the benefits of procuring, and where possible manufacturing, humanitarian relief goods closer to where they're needed.
The partnership brings together aid organisations, suppliers and researchers to build the evidence for local and regional sourcing, and to tackle the barriers that hold it back. Its work has been supported by the H2H Network and the Internet of Production, feeding directly into HLA's wider advocacy on procurement policy.
Humanitarian Health Supply Chains
Works to build robust, coordinated approaches to health and humanitarian supply chains.
The group focuses on the capacity, resilience and workforce that health logistics depend on, from routine immunisation to emergency response in fragile settings. It brings practitioners together to share what works and to shape stronger standards for getting medical supplies where they are needed.
Last Mile Delivery
Tackles the hardest stage of aid delivery - the final leg to remote and underserved communities.
The programme examines the transport technologies, infrastructure and policies that determine whether aid completes its journey to the people who need it. It gathers evidence on practical innovations, from sustainable vehicles to drone trials, that extend reach into the places conventional supply chains struggle to serve.