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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Menstrual hygiene management in humanitarian emergencies: Gaps and recommendations

Over the last 15 years there has been increasing attention to adolescent girls' and women's menstrual hygiene management (MHM) needs in humanitarian response contexts.

Publication year: 2012    Reporting Agency: Columbia University    Author(s): Sommer_M.

Menstrual hygiene management in emergencies: Taking stock of support from UNICEF and partners

Refugee populations often flee with very little belongings and lack appropriate hygiene infrastructure in an environment that is unfamiliar to them. For women and girls, this also means that it is more difficult for them to have menstrual hygiene management (MHM).

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

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.

Managing menstrual hygiene in emergency situation: How far from reality?

Menstrual hygiene is a vital as well as a very sensitive issue for women in reproductive ages. In general, women spend around six to seven years of their lives menstruating.

Publication year: 2012    Reporting Agency: ASIA REGIONAL SANITATION AND HYGIENE PRACTITIONERS WORKSHOP    Author(s): Wickramasinghe_D.

Up scaling Rural Sanitation in Pakistan Post-2010 Flood Areas

In the aftermath of the unprecedented flooding in 2010 that devastated large areas of the country and directly affected over 20 million people, the incidence of water, sanitation and hygiene related diseases, including acute diarrhea, among the affected populat

Publication year: 2012    Reporting Agency: UNICEF    Author(s): Alrai_A., Shami_B.

Hygiene promotion: determining what works

For people affected by disaster, whether wars, earthquakes, or disease epidemics, conditions of life can change suddenly and in ways that require rapid adjustments.

Publication year: 2012    Reporting Agency: Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Oxfam    Author(s): Contzen_N., Mosler_H.