Hygiene

Hygiene programming includes specific messaging and information sharing, in addition to considering who is targeted and how beneficiaries are equipped and engaged. Example hygiene projects include: handwashing promotion, menstrual health management (MHM), media messaging strategies, general promotion or sensitization, community health worker activities, and non-food item distributions, like hygiene kits or soap distributions.
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What is the scope for addressing menstrual hygiene management in complex humanitarian emergencies A global review

Global attention on improving the integration of menstrual hygiene management (MHM) into humanitarian response is growing.

Publication year: 2016    Reporting Agency: Columbia University    Author(s): Sommer_M., Schmitt_M., Clatworthy_D., Bramucci_G., Wheeler_E., Ratnayake_R.

"Menstrual hygiene: a ‘silent’ need during disaster recovery"

Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene. There is an increasing awareness to incorporate inclusive, participatory, and gender-sensitive strategies for implementation of response programmes.

Publication year: 2016    Reporting Agency: University College London    Author(s): Krishnan_S., Twigg_J.

Health education and promotion at the site of an emergency: experience from the Chinese Wenchuan earthquake response

Theories and strategies of social mobilization, capacity building, mass and interpersonal communication, as well as risk communication and behavioral change were used to develop health education and promotion campaigns to decrease and prevent injuries and infectious diseases among the survivors o

Publication year: 2016    Reporting Agency: Furdan University    Author(s): Tian_X., Zhao_G., Cao_D., Wang_D., Wang_L.