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The UNICEF Cholera Toolkit provides UNICEF staff and partners with practical resources to implement an integrated approach to chole
When water supplies are compromised during an emergency, responders often recommend household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS
Médecins Sans Frontières-Operational Centre Amsterdam piloted the distribution of household disinfection kits (HDKs) and health prom
Household water treatment (HWTS) methods, such as boiling or chlorination, have long been recommended in emergencies.
In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Oxfam’s Public Health Promotion team used a voucher programme to provide beneficiarie
In order to ensure maximum consumer benefits (e.g.
Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities.
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
Emergency water treatment approaches relying on coagulation vary from centralised modular and portable ‘‘kits’’ to ‘‘
Batch water treatment consists of the intermittent use of settling tanks for water clarification, and is a common treatment practice