Humanitarian Social Logistic and the Fourth Sector: Policy Design for Communities Affected by the Disaster

It is important to recognize the role of the solidarity economy in the development of a community; in the literature, several cases of successful experiences on this type have been found. The typical case in the eastern Antioquia sub-region is the municipality of Granada whose, after being victims of violent actors, inhabitants through the cooperative sector (fourth sector) have managed to move on from the social, cultural and economic point of view. Therefore, the Fourth Sector as a resilience mechanism in a community can contribute to improving conditions after a population has been the victim of a natural disaster. This work demonstrates the way the Fourth Sector can be involved in the post-disaster phase without interfering in the different aid and rescue operations carried out by government-assisted relief agencies. In trying to design this kind of general protocol, humanitarian logistics and the social area of cooperatives come together to create the term humanitarian social logistic, which is the objective of this essay and lay the foundations for this theory. The methodology of this research work is retrospective quantitative with a descriptive scope, based on the events that occurred in the eastern Antioquia sub-region and how the affected communities did or did not move forward and which organizations helped to rebuild them. As a result, the general procedure of how the Fourth Sector would improve the living conditions of the possible affected community is obtained, and thus this sector can significantly help restore these communities since the social, cultural and economic. Therefore, it will be presented to solidarity economy organizations and the government so that it is included in the public policies of solidarity and social economy.