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Pubescent girls face unique emotional barriers to returning to school after a disaster concerning water, sanitation and hygiene (WAS
Protracted armed conflicts in the Middle East and Africa are heavily impacting the infrastructure of basic services such as water, e
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are often predisposed to infectious diseases because of the temporary nature of their abode whic
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene.
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
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