ASSESSMENT OF THE CHALLENGES OF LOGISTICS OF RELIEF MATERIAL AT INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDPS) CAMPS IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA

Abstract

Aids organisations are scrambling to give relief supplies in a shorter amount oftime due to disasters that occur unprepared. Due to difficulties in their logistics system, therapid demand for relief supplies by catastrophe victims has an impact on how well thehumanitarian aid logistics can meet the demand. The purpose of this research is to identify themain challenges that the humanitarian logistics of relief supplies in the IDP camps in NorthCentral Nigeria are facing. The study developed a null hypothesis stating that the six majorchallenges facing humanitarian logistics of relief supplies across aid organizations are notstatistically significant. The IDP camps in Malaysian Garden and Area 1 in Federal CapitalTerritory were selected for this study using a purposeful sampling method. 120 questionnaireswere distributed across the humanitarian relief organisations using convenience sampling.Eighteen challenges that were identified were factored into 6 significant challenges using factoranalysis. The data gathered from the humanitarian relief employees was analysed usingfrequency, percentages, and mean index score while T-Test statistics were used to evaluate thestudy