The Fleet Forum is a joint initiative by the International Federation of the Red Cross, the World Food Programme, World Vision International, and TNT, who together represent a wide humanitarian community of the governmental and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Through the Joint Supply Chain Initiative TNT brings expertise from the commercial sector and from its projects with WFP, to the forum.
Triple I: Impressive - Intense - Inspiring
05 May 2011
Monique Wisse
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Having Nothing and Sharing vs Not Having and Sharing
... to clearly understand our 'customer' WHO-NPSP and to prepare for the trainings Guus and I spend a day with NPSP during 'a round'. It was a special day. I call it ‘a triple I day': Impressive - Intense - Inspiring.
The team leader of the region - who has a responsibility for an area at least as large as the Netherlands - and a doctor guide us this day.
Salutations de Genève!
25 March 2011
Kamelia Ignatova
This is it! Today, 25th of March was the last official closing day of the 2011 Annual Fleet Forum Conference!
The last 3 days in Geneva, where this year’s conference took place, were the most challenging, intense, but at the same time interesting and exiting days of my whole 4 months Moving the World assignment.
In my opinion the 2011 Fleet Forum conference happened to be a great success!
Below I will give some more facts in support to that impression:
2011 Fleet Forum conference is fully booked
11 March 2011
Kamelia Ignatova
As I promised in my first blog, I would like to give you an update to the preparations of the annual Fleet Forum conference event due on 23-25th March in Geneva which currently is my main responsibility until the end of my MTW assignment.
Some thing VS Something
27 January 2011
Monique Wisse
How to describe my first week in Delhi? Well… I find it almost impossible. But let’s go for it! It’s total chaos, says me, experience it from my own Dutch and therefore limited view. With respect to the people here: how they survive? And then I am only talking about the traffic. If you see and experience the traffic you’ll not be surprised there are over 120.000 accidents with deadly end in India every year. To be honest it surprises me that there aren’t more.
Working for Fleet Forum in India
26 January 2011
Monique Wisse
Fleet Forum is a joint initiative of amongst others WFP and TNT. Fleet Forum is the first independent knowledge centre, focused on issues surrounding transport in low and middle income countries. An interagency association that serves as an interface between stakeholders focusing on a foundation of three interdependent pillars of transport activity as it affects humanitarian aid and development:
1. Efficient and Effective Humanitarian Action,
2. Improved Environmental Impact, and,
1. Efficient and Effective Humanitarian Action,
2. Improved Environmental Impact, and,
Fleet Safety Project
29 April 2008
Anonymous
Road safety is a real concern faced by members of the humanitarian community, as travelling in a vehicle is considered to be the most dangerous activity faced by field workers today. More than 25% of all deaths suffered by aid workers are a result of accidental causes, of which the vast majority is vehicle-related.
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