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Background. Children in humanitarian situations are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as diar- rhoea.
In humanitarian emergency settings there is need for low cost and rapidly deployable interventions to protect vulnerable children, i
Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
In August 2015, an outbreak of cholera was reported in Tanzania.
Camps are places of refuge for people fleeing conflict and disaster, but they can be dangerous, especially for women and girls.
Poor lighting at water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities may reduce the usage of latrines and other services such as bathing
Lighting should be provided for WASH facilities in Humanitarian contexts according to several standards.
Globally, an estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation.
Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene.
As an alternative, CLTS can appear fundamentally mismatched with post-emergency and fragile states contexts: the core