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Decision Making and the Use of Guidance on Sanitation Systems and Faecal Sludge Management in the First Phase of Rapid-Onset Emergen
This discussion paper summarizes the results and implications of a study commissioned by the World Bank to conduct
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
After the Ebola outbreak was declared in Sierra Leone, in June 2014, early messages about the high mortality rate of Ebola were met
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
In order to ensure maximum consumer benefits (e.g.
Emergency water treatment approaches relying on coagulation vary from centralised modular and portable ‘‘kits’’ to ‘‘
This paper describes the potential of ecological sanitation (ecosan), and in particular of urine-diversion dehydrating (UDD) toilets
After emergency situations, aid agencies tend to implement sanitation systems that exhibit good principles for managing human excret