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This factsheet addresses current developments, challenges, gaps and solutions in the planning and implementation fo sustainable sani
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
The response to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 highlighted the use of rented portable toilets in emergency context.
In most of the emergency project, we just provided facilities to help people in need to have some living environment.
Safe excreta disposal is a top priority in an emergency, but one that takes time and extensive resources to implement.
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
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
When the Asian tsunami struck the Andaman Islands, nearly 7,000 people were relocated in six camps.