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Pubescent girls face unique emotional barriers to returning to school after a disaster concerning water, sanitation and hygiene (WAS
Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
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
Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene.
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.
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