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The Zimbabwean government and a number of organisations responded in various ways to the devastation done by Cyclone Idai, which occ
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
This paper considers the damage to household toilets in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquake through the lens of good performa
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
After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, thousands of agencies, organizations, and individual people tried to find ways to help the pe
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