Every year, about 500 disasters do occur causing a death of about 75,000 people and affectingrnsome 200 million people. The relevance of humanitarian organizations thus is unquestionable. Byrntheir very nature and as part of their mission, they play a significant role in rescuing people inrnsuch situations. In recent years, humanitarians have come under immense pressure from therndonors, pledging millions in aid and goods, to prove that they are meeting their objectives in anrnefficient and effective way. Eighty percent of humanitarian organizationâ€™s operations are spent onrnsupply chain management that targeting an improvement in the practice would be a potential andrnjustified approach to overcome the pressure. Supply chain challenges faced therefore worsenrnhumanitarian operations creating a lot of uncertainty among humanitarian organizations. Thisrnstudy, therefore, conducted to assess the challenges of humanitarian supply chain management inrnEthiopia. Specifically, the study had aimed at assessing the supply chain management practices ofrnhumanitarian organizations, identifying supply chain challenges facing humanitarianrnorganization in emergencies and identifying supply chain practices that can be adopted tornovercome the challenges and evaluate the effectiveness of national disaster risk managementrncommission response rate in terms of timeliness, suitability and adequacy of relief quantities. Therndata was collected from experts who involved in early warning, supply chain logistic and warehousernprofessionals, Oromiya region, East shewa zonal and Adama district experts, and Adama woredarnrelief beneficiaries. This thesis examine the management of disasters by disaster risk managementrncommission in the area of humanitarian supply chain in responds to the 2015/16 disaster and howrnsatisfied drought victims were clustered at community based that EJeers Mersa, Bekoje Dewaro,rnand Chekawa dufa in Adama district is purposely selected. And the households were randomlyrnselected the respondent in each communities from relief beneficiaries. The analysis was done byrnusing Statistic Package for Social Science (SPSS) and presented using descriptive statistic, Likertrnscale, mean scores, standard deviation and ANOVA and presented in the form of tablesâ€™ frequencyrnand percentages. From the findings, challenges facing humanitarian organization grouped intornmanagement related challenges, financial related challenges and operating environment relatedrnchallenges. It was interesting noted that beneficiaries were satisfied with the emergency responsesrnfor 2015/16 response rate in terms of timeliness, adequacy, and suitability of the delivery of reliefrnitems. The result of the study puts forth a simple framework of supply chain managementrntechniques for management of disaster during relief operations and examines why governmentsrnand other humanitarian organization should considered their use.rnKey Word: Disaster Response Humanitarian Aids, Humanitarian Supply Chain Management,rnLogistics, Ethiopia.