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Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
Menstrual hygiene is a vital as well as a very sensitive issue for women in reproductive ages.
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
This factsheet addresses current developments, challenges, gaps and solutions in the planning and implementation fo sustainable sani
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.