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Background: Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for 30% of deaths among children displaced due
Engaging communities in humanitarian programming is key to ensuring their participation in decision-making that affects them as outl
The Lifesaver Cube (‘the Cube’) is a household water filter developed in collaboration with Oxfam.
A participatory assessment on disaster risk reduction (DRR) was undertaken in GAZA governorate in 2011, OXFAM being the lead agency
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Most households in the districts of Sri Lanka affected by the tsunami possessed drinking water wells, and these wells were contamina
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.
Diarrhoea is one of the five major causes of death in an emergency setting and one of the three main causes of death in children (Cu