Evaluating stakeholder structure and private actor involvement on the distribution of relief goods considering a partly centralised decision

ABSTRACT

Relief distribution involves numerous stakeholders with various roles and different structures regarding stakeholders’ coordination. This paper proposes a model to evaluate various stakeholder structures for distributing relief goods. Unlike previous research, this model evaluates the coordination structure, assuming no single centralised decision-maker exists. The proposed model is developed based on the decomposition-based framework, assuming a partly centralised decision. The proposed model also integrates road network restoration into the model by capturing the disrupted road network. The role of the private sector is elaborated by exploring the impact of private business involvement in food-related distribution and road network restoration. The proposed model is applied to an actual case, namely the Palu earthquake and tsunami in 2018. We found that the multifocal structure performs better in distributing relief goods. Furthermore, the involvement of the private sector succeeds in minimising the unsatisfied demand.

KEYWORDS:

• Relief distribution
• multistakeholder
• non-centralised decision
• partly centralised decision
• decomposition-based framework
• road restoration

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• C7
• D7
• D85

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Program of Research, Community Service, and Innovation (P2MI), Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FTSL).

Disclosure statement

The authors report there are no competing interests to declare.

Data availability statement

Due to [ethical/legal/commercial] supporting data is not available.

Supplementary material

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17509653.2023.2183279

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Funding

The work was supported by the Institut Teknologi Bandung [P2MI 2021].