Conflicts, wars, and complex emergencies often trigger large-scale displacement. To assist humanitarian organisations in dealing with displacement, the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management has selected highly relevant articles that tackle various aspects of delivering aid to internally displaced people and refugees. Thus, all articles in the special issue on “Logistics and SCM in the context of relief for refugees and internally displaced persons” are open access.

This free virtual issue facilitates learning from previous responses to displacement situations, including aspects of camp management and community-based camp design, local procurement, to cash-based initiatives to people of concern. Thereby, it provides a quick overview of an array of different response options and the state of the art of research on these from a supply chain perspective.

Humanitarian logistics research for the care of refugees and internally displaced persons: A new area of research and a research agenda by Richard Oloruntoba and Ruth Banomyong

International and local NGO supply chain collaboration: An investigation of the Syrian refugee crises in Jordan by Samar Al Adem, Paul Childerhouse, Temitope Egbelakin and Bill Wang

Approaches to the design of refugee camps: An empirical study in Kenya, Ethiopia, Greece, and Turkey by Marianne Jahre, Joakim Kembro, Anicet Adjahossou and Nezih Altay

Developing a camp performance indicator system and its application to Zaatari, Jordan by Anna-Mara Schön, Shahad Al-Saadi, Jakob Grubmueller and Dorit Schumann-Bölsche

In-kind donations, cash transfers and local procurement in the logistics of caring for internally displaced persons: The case of Polish humanitarian NGOs and Ukrainian IDPs by Wojciech D. Piotrowicz

Humanitarian supply chain management responding to refugees: a literature review by Lysann Seifert, Nathan Kunz and Stefan Gold