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Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities.
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
Safe excreta disposal is a top priority in an emergency, but one that takes time and extensive resources to implement.
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) response in urban contexts has been identified by the Global WASH Learning Project as a priorit
The supply of adequate amounts of safe water for drinking and hygiene during natural disasters or armed conflict can be compromised
Inadequate sanitation, inadequate water supplies and poor hygiene are critical determinants for survival of victims of natural disas
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
The Treguine refugee camp in Eastern Chad, is in a semi-arid terrain of hard, crystalline rock, where hard-rock boreholes proved ina
After emergency situations, aid agencies tend to implement sanitation systems that exhibit good principles for managing human excret
When the Asian tsunami struck the Andaman Islands, nearly 7,000 people were relocated in six camps.