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Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene.
This paper describes the potential of ecological sanitation (ecosan), and in particular of urine-diversion dehydrating (UDD) toilets
A number of organizations engaged in tanker trucks to deliver water to populations affected by the 2005 tsunami in Indonesia.
Following the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004, the emergency response that ensued prioritized the health and well