Environmental Hygiene

Environmental hygiene is critical to ensure a safe local environment for disaster-affected populations. These projects could include vector control activities, like rubbish collection and disposal, site improvements and drainage, or community chlorine spraying during disease outbreaks.
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Community Led Ebola Management and Eradication Approach (CLEME) REVIEW REPORT

In 2014, ACF initiated an innovative approach for social mobilization activites that mobilizes the communities for impoving control of the risks of transmission of Ebola at the community level.

Publication year: 2015    Reporting Agency: Action Contre la Faim - ACF    Author(s): Action Contre La Faim - ACF

Impact of jerry can disinfection in a camp environment - experiences in an IDP camp in Northern Uganda

In July 2007, a study by the Centre for Environmental Health Engineering, at the University of Surrey, assessed a modified method of jerry can cleaning in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Kitgum, N. Uganda.

Publication year: 2008    Reporting Agency: University of Surrey    Author(s): Steele_A., Clarke_B., Watkins_O.

Compendium of WASH in Schools Facilities in Emergencies

The purpose of this compendium is to collate knowledge on emergency interventions that deliver WASH-related health benefits while minimizing disruption to education opportunities.

Publication year: 2012    Reporting Agency: UNICEF    Author(s): UNICEF

Water, sanitation, and hygiene in emergencies: summary review and recommendations for further research

Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions can interrupt diarrhoeal disease transmission and reduce the burden of morbidity and mortality associated with faecal-oral infections.

Publication year: 2012    Reporting Agency: Georgia Institute of Technology and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine    Author(s): Brown_J., Cavill_S., Cumming_O., Jeandron_A.

Solid Waste and Faecal Sludge Management in Situations of Rapid, Mass Displacement

Solid  waste  and  faecal  sludge  management  in  situations  of  rapid  mass  displacement  are  important  to  public  health  and  providing  for  a  betterenvironment.Despite  this,  both  have  been  neglected  in  WASH  programmes,  which  tend  to  have  a  focus  on  water.  Howeverincre

Publication year: 2017    Reporting Agency: Institute of Development Studies    Author(s): Rohwerder_B.

Gap Analysis in Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion

The emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion (WASH) gap analysis project was funded by The Humanitarian  Innovation Fund (HIF), a program managed by Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance (ELRHA) in partnership with the Active Learning Network for Accountability and

Publication year: 2013    Reporting Agency: Oxfam    Author(s): Bastable_A., Lamb_J.

A Review of the Evidence Base for WASH interventions in Emergency Responses

Inadequate sanitation, inadequate water supplies and poor hygiene are critical determinants for survival of victims of natural disasters and conflict situations, especially in the initial stages of a disaster.

Publication year: 2009    Reporting Agency: Atkins    Author(s): Parkinson_J.

Container contamination as a possible source of a diarrhoea outbreak in Abou Shouk camp, Darfur province, Sudan

Diarrhoea is one of the five major causes of death in an emergency setting and one of the three main causes of death in children (Curtis and Cairncross, 2003). In June 2004, an outbreak of shigellosis was confirmed in Abou Shouk camp in the Northern Darfur province of Sudan.

Publication year: 2005    Reporting Agency: Oxfam    Author(s): Walden_V., Lamond_E., Field_S.

Evidence on the Effectiveness of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Interventions on Health Outcomes in Humanitarian Crises: A Systematic Review

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions are amongst the most crucial in humanitarian crises, although the impact of the different WASH interventions on health outcomes remains unclear.

Publication year: 2015    Reporting Agency: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine    Author(s): Ramesh_A., Blanchet_K., Ensink_J., Roberts_B.

Uptake of household disinfection kits as an additional measure in response to a cholera outbreak in urban areas of Haiti

Médecins Sans Frontières-Operational Centre Amsterdam piloted the distribution of household disinfection kits (HDKs) and health promotion sessions for cholera prevention in households of patients admitted to their cholera treatment centres in Carrefour, Port au Prince, Haiti, between December 201

Publication year: 2013    Reporting Agency: Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF    Author(s): Gartley_M., Valeh_P., de Lange_R., DiCarlo_S., Viscusi_A., Lenglet_A., Fesselet_J.