BARCELONA — With the need to move lifesaving supplies, often amid very difficult circumstances and under time pressure, managing transport logistics for humanitarian and development operations is a complex business.
Isabell Maina is a regional transport manager at the International Committee of the Red Cross and oversees the organization’s second-largest logistics hub in Nairobi. From there, her team supports ICRC delegations in the region, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Rwanda.
This year, the Nairobi hub has also delivered medical supplies to 46 other countries, including Venezuela and Armenia. It has been a particularly challenging year, Maina said. But having worked with the organization for two decades, she is no stranger to the “uncertainty and rapid changes that characterize humanitarian operations.”