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Fourteen years of civil war left Liberia with crumbling infrastructure and one of the weakest health systems in the world.
Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.
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.
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
Menstrual hygiene is integral to women's health and has a lasting impact on women's education, livelihoods and secu
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
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