A School Feeding Supply Chain Framework: Critical Factors for Sustainable Program Design

Kretschmer, Andreas; Spinler, Stefan; Wassenhove, Luk N. Van

doi:10.1111/poms.12109

Cited by 48 publications

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“…Therefore, the focus for developing countries should be on such specific indicators as child mortality as measure of progress for both development and for disaster response and preparedness. Development research on improving children's wellbeing through school feeding programmes (Kretschmer et al., 2014) or even through teaching basic hygiene is indirectly important for humanitarian operations as well. For strategic humanitarian operations therefore, bellwether metrics should include child mortality, improving which would require a mix of development initiatives as well as preparedness against disasters in disaster‐prone countries.…”

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Natural disasters, the economy and population vulnerability as a vicious cycle with exogenous hazards

Sodhi

2016

J of Ops Management

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One way to understand the growing impact of disasters is as the output of a positive feedback, or reinforcing, loop. This paper hypothesizes that population vulnerability of a country transforms exogenous hazards to disaster impact for that country, which negatively impacts its economy as measured by per capita income and its growth. This impact in turn increases the vulnerability of the country's population thus creating a reinforcing loop. Therefore, like the output of any positive feedback loop, disaster impact would grow exponentially. Having analysed data over 50 years (1963e2012) and 179 countries, we find the results to be consistent with this conceptual model. We also find that disaster impact worldwide has indeed grown exponentially over this period even after normalizing for the growing global population and global income. These findings indicate the existence of a feedback loop that requires strategic rethinking about disaster management and development jointly to break this vicious cycle.

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Natural disasters, the economy and population vulnerability as a vicious cycle with exogenous hazards

Sodhi

2016

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“…Any country trying to improve performance has to figure out concrete steps, both process and system based. We suggest a supply chain framework, such as the one described in Kretschmer et al. (2014) for school feeding programs across less‐developed countries, to help systematically identify concrete steps for process improvement.…”

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“…(2014) for school feeding programs across less‐developed countries, to help systematically identify concrete steps for process improvement. Kretschmer et al. (2014) classify each country's program as Centralized, Decentralized or Semi decentralized, and whether or not the programs were insourced or outsourced.…”

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Disentangling the efficiency drivers in country‐level global health programs: An empirical study

Berenguer

Iyer

Yadav

2016

J of Ops Management

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Motivated by the cost reductions and outcome improvements generated by benchmarking in many industries, we focus on in-country global health programs to identify and quantify opportunities for process improvement. We empirically study the major efficiency drivers of reproductive health (RH) country programs in Sub-Saharan Africa sponsored by international funding organizations. To ensure a level playing field for comparison across countries, we quantify the impact of cross-country heterogeneity and random shocks on the efficiency of RH programs. To analyze these relationships and isolate the effects attributable to managerial inefficiency, we use a three-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)/ Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model. We show the impact of environmental factors on program efficiency, linking policy making decisions with operational and health outcome performance. We also show that donor fragmentation negatively impacts managerial efficiency, and we suggest actions to mitigate this effect. We then provide a way to improve performance through benchmarking efforts within groups of countries and present an initial prototype of such efforts.

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“…Notable exceptions include Privett (), Kretschmer et al. (), and the aforementioned Berenguer et al. ().…”

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Donor Reliance on Accounting and its Consequences for the Charitable Distribution Channel

Arya

Mittendorf

2016

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T he organization of charitable distribution channels to ensure donor contributions reach beneficiaries in an efficient manner and the use of accounting metrics of such efficiency (whether provided directly or by charity rating groups) are oft-discussed issues in the nonprofit sector. The two issues are inextricably linked since reported efficiency measures influence subsequent donor giving. This study develops a parsimonious model of a charity that must decide how best to employ its resources, either by acting as a direct service provider or as a grant provider to organizations that provide services to beneficiaries. We show that the desire to boost perceptions of efficiency vis-a-vis accounting reports leads an organization to rely more on others to provide services rather than being a direct service provider. This temptation to expand either the scope or length of the charity supply line is muted by a desire to avoid redundant costs and improve service delivery. The model's results have implications both for the role of nonprofit accounting and observed distribution strategies of nonprofits.

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A School Feeding Supply Chain Framework: Critical Factors for Sustainable Program Design

Cited by 48 publications

References 36 publications

Natural disasters, the economy and population vulnerability as a vicious cycle with exogenous hazards

Natural disasters, the economy and population vulnerability as a vicious cycle with exogenous hazards

Disentangling the efficiency drivers in country‐level global health programs: An empirical study

Donor Reliance on Accounting and its Consequences for the Charitable Distribution Channel

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