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Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
Most households in the districts of Sri Lanka affected by the tsunami possessed drinking water wells, and these wells were contamina