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The branding of humanitarian assets and programme signage (often in English) is common practice in displacement contexts.
Emergency responses in humanitarian contexts require rapid set-up of water supply.
Background: Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for 30% of deaths among children displaced due
Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
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.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.