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Fourteen years of civil war left Liberia with crumbling infrastructure and one of the weakest health systems in the world.
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are often predisposed to infectious diseases because of the temporary nature of their abode whic
This discussion paper summarizes the results and implications of a study commissioned by the World Bank to conduct
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
The Treguine refugee camp in Eastern Chad, is in a semi-arid terrain of hard, crystalline rock, where hard-rock boreholes proved ina
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
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.