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Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
The aims of this study are to identify sanitation options for infants and young children less than five years old (IYCU5) in emergen
Theories and strategies of social mobilization, capacity building, mass and interpersonal communication, as well as risk communicati
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
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
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