“Humanitarian procurement for emergency response is spontaneous and often unplanned, because although we may plan for a catastrophe the when it may happen maybe a mystery! To address this, innovative solutions must include putting in place long term agreements (framework agreements), contracts for vendor consigned stocks, pre-positioning of stocks which would predictably be used for a broad range of responses and a cash based intervention option to allow people affected to have their dignity of choice.” CatastropheLogisticsEmergencyDisaster PreparednessProcurementDisaster QuotesEmergency ResponseHumanitarian LogisticsHumanitarian Procurement Author:Victor Manan Nyambala