30 March :59-GMT04:00 Gulf Standard Time (Dubai)

The United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Dubai plays a critical role in global emergency preparedness and response, serving as a strategic pre‑positioning and dispatch hub for life‑saving humanitarian relief items in support of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the wider humanitarian community. Since late February 2026, UNHRD Dubai has faced severe disruptions to maritime corridors, intermittent port and airspace closures, rapid changes in routing availability, volatile freight rates, and intensified competition for transport capacity. These conditions are directly impacting the ability of UNHRD Dubai to move pre‑positioned stocks in a timely and cost‑effective manner and to replenish strategic inventories critical to ongoing and emerging humanitarian operations in the Middle East and beyond.

Specifically the assignment aims to: