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The Global WASH Cluster (GWC) in 2020 launched the Humanitarian WASH Road Map 2020–2025, articulating the need to enhance the capaci
Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
Over the last few years, we have heavily invested in funding and supporting innovation and research in the WASH sector, highlighting
Decision Making and the Use of Guidance on Sanitation Systems and Faecal Sludge Management in the First Phase of Rapid-Onset Emergen
Purpose. The 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa was the largest in history.
In a disaster context, where risk for diarrhoeal disease is elevated, personal hygiene, i.e.
For people affected by disaster, whether wars, earthquakes, or disease epidemics, conditions of life can change suddenly and in ways
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.