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Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Providing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) to emergency-affected populations is necessary for dignity and
Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
Humanitarian agencies strive to provide sanitation facilities which are safe, accessible and afford users privacy and dignity.
Camps are places of refuge for people fleeing conflict and disaster, but they can be dangerous, especially for women and girls.
Market based programming is increasingly heralded as having a critical place in the future of humanitarian programmi
Appropriate and adequate sanitation solutions are crucial for the protection of human and environmental health in emergencies.
Menstrual hygiene is a vital as well as a very sensitive issue for women in reproductive ages.
A simple method for filtering water to reduce the incidence of cholera was tested in a field trial in Matlab, Bangladesh, and proved
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) response in urban contexts has been identified by the Global WASH Learning Project as a priorit