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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Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an important role in the transmission of the disease. |
This report is based on a desk-based review of secondary data, comprising published material as well as grey literature, supplemented with key informant interviews for programmes that lacked documentation. |
Humanitarians increasingly view market-based programming (MBP) and cash-transfer programming (CTP) as an effective response to address humanitarian needs of affected people. This is particularly reflected in the cash commitments made under the Grand Bargain of the World Humanitarian Summit. |