The Role of Blockchain in Humanitarian Aid: Improving Transparency, Optimizing Logistics, and Empowering Recipients through Secure Identity Management and Direct Support. This chapter presents and critically discusses the empirical findings of the study, structured around the four analytical mechanisms established in Chapter 2: information coordination, inter-agency trust, adoption trajectories, and user-level system use. Following the methodology set out in Chapter 3, thematic analysis...

This chapter details the qualitative, interpretivist multiple-case study approach (Yin, 2018; Creswell and Poth, 2018) for examining blockchain in humanitarian coordination, focusing on WFP's Building Blocks, with UNICEF's CryptoFund and IFRC's Digital Identity pilot as comparators. Guided by the integrated conceptual framework developed in Chapter 2, the study centres on four mechanisms—information processing, trust, adoption, and user behaviour—within three enabling conditions. Data were...

Leveraging blockchain in humanitarian aid: improving transparency and efficiency across supply chains, cash transfers, and digital identity. This chapter builds on the foundations established in Chapter One by critically reviewing the theoretical and empirical literature on blockchain in humanitarian coordination. It is structured around four selected frameworks—OIPT, RV, DOI, and UTAUT—which reflect the structural, relational, innovation, and user dimensions of adoption. The review concludes...