Abstract- Relief organizations deal with emergencies sometimes which are unpredictable. It may be difficult to plan the procurement and one may need to break some procurement regulations to deal with the emergencies and unpredictable situations. During an emergency and disasters, procurement of supplies is required. There may be over supply of the humanitarian supplies which may end up wasted once the emergency is over. The procurement chain of relief organization such as ICRC-Kenya provides emergency relief responses during disasters. Relief organization have a responsibility to fulfill their mandates without jeopardizing their relationship with such stakeholders as donors who fund such relief programs and at the core of maintaining this relations are the managers who have to come up with procurement policies aimed at streamlining these functions. It is the effects of all these efforts and functions on the performance of the procurement departments of such organizations that these study aimed at examining under the following, Organization structure, donor funding, procurement policies and information technology as the independent variables and procurement performance as the dependent variables.
The research methodology used was descriptive study. The sample was purposively selected. Data was collected using Questionnaires, cleaned using Excel, coded and analyzed quantitatively using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 21 and findings presented by frequency and percentage tables. It was established that of the independent variables (organization structure, procurement policies, donor funding and application of information technology), it was only application of information technology that significantly affected the procurement performance at ICRC-Kenya. The department resulted in increase in performance of the unit by 18.4%. it is recommended that procurement policies should be streamlined by the policy makers to ensure that they do not inhibit delivery of critical services. They should also invest in information technology especially e-procurement in their procurement departments to ensure that the procurement process are made more efficient towards aiding service delivery in such organization. To the future scholars, further studies should be carried out to unveil the nature of effects of information technology on procurement processes and how the challenges posed by the same can be overcome. The amount of wastage in Humanitarian organization
