EMERGENCY WATER SOURCES EMERGENCY SANITATION WHO TECHNICAL NOTES ON DRINKING-WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE IN EMERGENCIES CLEANING AND REHABILITATING HAND-DUG WELLS CLEANING AND REHABILITATING...
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Clean cooking in refugee camps and COVID-19: what lessons can we learn?
Clean energy cooking in refugee camps should be prioritised on the humanitarian agenda, new briefing note argues New briefing note outlines lessons to be learned from implementing clean cooking in...
An appraisal of the effectiveness and sustainability of sand dams to improve water security and resilience in Somaliland
Sand Dams Research in Somaliland This page details the findings of research into sand dams carried out as part of an MSc dissertation by Paz Lopez-Rey, Concern's Resilience Programme Coordinator in...
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Shining a Light: How lighting in or around sanitation facilities affects the risk of gender-based violence in camps
Camps are places of refuge for people fleeing conflict and disaster, but they can be dangerous, especially for women and girls. In their first months, many camps rely on communal sanitation...
Compendium of accessible WASH technologies
Introduction - This compendium is designed for use by staff working directly with communities - e.g. health workers and community volunteers working with disabled and older people and their families...
The Sphere Project Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response
The Sphere Project is an initiative to determine and promote standards by which the global community responds to the plight of people affected by disasters. This guide describes the format and...
Managing hygiene promotion in WASH programmes
Managers of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programmes normally acknowledge that people need to behave in a hygienic manner to protect water supplies and ensure that sanitation facilities are...
Violence, Gender & Wash: A Practitioner's Toolkit
Making water, sanitation and hygiene safer through improved programming and services This toolkit has been developed in response to an acknowledgement that although the lack of access to appropriate...
Technical notes on drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene in emergencies - 2nd edition
Flooding, earthquakes, civil unrest and other natural and man-made disasters often cause damage to hand-dug wells. This technical note sets out the actions needed to repair and rehabilitate a...
Selecting water, sanitation and hygiene indicators
For the effective management or investigation of a water, sanitation or hygiene project, the manager or researcher has to be aware of the current state of the project at any given point to be able to...
Disasters and emergencies: definitions, impacts and response
The number of reported natural disasters is increasing and there is an apparent ongoing need to provide international humanitarian aid to people affected by conflict and war. Understanding the...
Excreta disposal in emergencies: A field manual
Author(s): Harvey, Peter It is generally accepted that excreta disposal is given less priority in emergencies than other humanitarian interventions such as health care, food and water supply. This is...
Emergency Water Sources: Guidelines for Selection and Treatment
Author(s): House, Sarah | Reed, Bob These guidelines have been designed to help those involved in the assessment of emergency water sources to collect relevant information in a systematic way, to use...
Out in the Cold: Emergency Water Supply and Sanitation for Cold Regions
In the 1990s events in Bosnia, the former Soviet Union countries, Afghanistan and Northern Iraq showed that humanitarian disasters are not limited to the South, Africa, or the tropics, but may strike...
Emergency Sanitation: Assessment and Programme Design
Seeking to assist those involved in planning and implementing emergency sanitation programmes, this book focuses on a systematic and structured approach to assessment and programme design. It three...
Technical Support for Refugees
This conference reports presents the results of a conference on providing appropriate and immediate technical support such as water supply, sanitation, shelter and access for refugees. Addressing...