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Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.
The provision of safe water and adequate sanitation facilities to communities is a key part of Save the Children’s work in emergenci
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
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
Menstrual hygiene is a vital as well as a very sensitive issue for women in reproductive ages.
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