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
• 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
• Approved essential medicines per country
• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes 
• DG ECHO - Review of quality assurance (QA) mechanisms for medicines and medical supplies in humanitarian aid
• ICRC - Medical Waste Management Guidelines
• Immunizationacademy.com 
• JSI - Guidelines for the Storage of Essential Medicines and other Health Commodities
• MSF - Cold Chain Evaluation
• PATH - Total Cost of Ownership Tool for Cold Chain Equipment
• PATH / WHO - Delivering Vaccines: A Cost Comparison of In-Country Vaccine Transport Container Options
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) 
• Technical Network for Strengthening Immunization Services
• USAID - Logistics Handbook, A Practical Guide for the Supply Chain Management of Health Commodities
• UNICEF - Cold Chain Technical Support 
• UNICEF / WHO - Effective Vaccine Store Management Initiative
• UNICEF - Procurement Guidelines for Walk-In Cold Rooms And Freezer Rooms
• UNICEF - Procurement Guidelines, Compression System Refrigerators and Freezers
• UNICEF - Procurement Guidelines, Solar Direct Drive Refrigerators and Freezers
• UNICEF - Procurement Guidelines, Temperature Monitoring Devices
• UNICEF - Procurement Guidelines, Vaccine Carriers and Cold Boxes
• UNICEF / WHO - Decommissioning and Safe Disposal of Cold Chain Equipment
• WFP Logistics Cluster - Downstream Logistics in Pandemics
• WHO - Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) model standard operating procedures
• WHO - Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical PreparationsWHO - Interagency Emergency Health Kit
• WHO - Guidelines on the International Packaging and Shipping of Vaccines
• WHO - Guideline For Establishing Or Improving Primary And Intermediate Vaccine Stores
• WHO - Guidelines for Medicine Donations
• WHO - Guidance on Regulations for the Transport of Infectious Substances
• WHO - How to Monitor Temperatures in the Vaccine Supply Chain
• WHO - How to calculate vaccine volumes and cold chain capacity requirements
• WHO - How to use passive containers and coolant-packs, 2015
• WHO - Introducing Solar-powered Vaccine Refrigerator and Freezer Systems, A Guide for Managers in National Immunization Programmes
• WHO - Immunization in practice: A practical guide for health staff. Geneva
• WHO - Model List of Essential Medicines
• WHO - Performance, Quality and Safety (PQS)
• WHO - Safe Disposal of Unwanted Pharmaceuticals
• WHO - Safe Management of Wastes from Health‑Care Activities
• WHO - Solar direct-drive vaccine refrigerators and freezers
• WHO - Selection of Essential Medicines at Country Level
• WHO - Study protocol for temperature monitoring in the vaccine cold chain
• WHO - Supplement 01 - Selecting sites for storage facilities - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 02 - Design of storage facilities - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 03 - Estimating the capacity of storage facilities - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 04 - Security and fire protection in storage facilities - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 05 - Maintenance of storage facilities - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 06 - Temperature and Humidity Monitoring Systems for Fixed Storage Areas - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 07 - Qualification of Temperature-controlled Storage Areas - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 08 - Temperature Mapping of Storage Areas - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 09 - Refrigeration equipment maintenance - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 10 - Checking the accuracy of temperature control and monitoring devices - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 11 - Qualification of refrigerated road vehicles - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 12 - Temperature-controlled Transport Operations by Road and by Air - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 13 - Qualification of shipping containers - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 14 - Transport route profiling qualification - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 15 - Temperature and humidity monitoring systems for transport operations - May 2015
• WHO - Supplement 16 - Environmental management of refrigerant gases and refrigeration equipment - May 2015
• WHO - Thermostability of vaccines
• WHO - User’s handbook for vaccine cold rooms and freezer rooms
• WHO - Safe Management of Pharmaceutical Waste from Healthcare Facilities