DP WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE REPORT 2021
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CASE STUDY: THE LOGISTICS EMERGENCY TEAM
CASE STUDY: DISTRIBUTING COVID-19 VACCINES
We are part of The Logistics Emergency Teams (LET) alongside Agility, UPS and Maersk which work together to support the Logistics Cluster led by United Nations World Food Programme. The companies join forces to provide pro bono support to the humanitarian sector during emergency response to large-scale natural disasters. • At the outset of the pandemic, the Global Logistics Cluster formally requested the LET to activate their support to the Logistics Cluster community of partners. • Throughout the past two years, LET members have provided information management, assets and transportation support to communities worldwide. • DP World shared our expertise on how we use virtual reality to train logisticians in the operation hubs, for further use, and reviewed how humanitarian organisations that could apply this to train their own field staff.
DP World has built a global partnership with UNICEF which supports the global distribution of COVAX medical supplies in low- and lower-middle-income countries, ensuring equitable, affordable, and sustainable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all. In September 2021, the UNICEF Supply Division hosted the first workshop between DP World and UNICEF in the UNICEF SD HQs in Copenhagen. The overall purpose of the workshop was to help build a strong and aligned partnership between DP World and UNICEF, and develop common and clear supply led goals that bring maximum value to both partners. This partnership aims to support UNICEF’s lead role in procuring and supplying COVID-19 vaccines and auxiliary vaccination supplies on behalf of the COVAX Facility, by using DP World’s warehouse facilities in Dubai. So far, more than 250 million COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered to over 75 destinations by UNICEF. In addition to this initiative with UNICEF, DP World also launched a vaccine logistics alliance with Emirates Airlines and Dubai Airports to speed up the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world.
• DP World, on behalf of the LET members, presented the additional value of bringing public and private partners together through digital
transformation projects and preparedness activities at the
2021 Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP) meeting. • In addition to the support provided by the LET through the Logistics Cluster, members of the LET also contributed to the humanitarian and health response during the pandemic with a wide range of bilateral engagements and participation in a number of multi-stakeholder, public-private initiatives (read DP World’s COVID-19 response through UNICEF in the next case study).
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