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Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Providing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) to emergency-affected populations is necessary for dignity and
Household water treatment with chlorine can improve the microbiological quality of household water and reduce diarrhea
Market based programming is increasingly heralded as having a critical place in the future of humanitarian programmi
Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections account for nearly 30% of deaths among children displaced by humanitarian emergencies.
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) response in urban contexts has been identified by the Global WASH Learning Project as a priorit
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
Batch water treatment consists of the intermittent use of settling tanks for water clarification, and is a common treatment practice