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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UNICEF Cholera Toolkit

The UNICEF Cholera Toolkit provides UNICEF staff and partners with practical resources to implement  an integrated approach to cholera prevention, preparedness and response.  It addresses water, hygiene and sanitation, health and communication for development (

Publication year: 2013    Reporting Agency: UNICEF    Author(s): UNICEF

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 water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) is not the root cause of violence, it can lead to increased vulnerabilities to violence of varying fo

Publication year: 2014    Reporting Agency: WaterAid    Author(s): House_S., Ferron_S., Sommer_M., Cavill_S.

A toolkit for integrating menstrual hygiene management (MHM) into humanitarian response

This toolkit aims to provide streamlined guidance to support organizations and agencies seeking to rapidly integrate menstrual hygiene management (MHM) into existing programming across sectors and phases.

Publication year: 2017    Reporting Agency: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and International Rescue Committee    Author(s): Sommer_M., Schmitt_M., Clatworthy_D.

An Introduction to Community Engagement in WASH

The humanitarian sector has been strengthening its focus on and commitment to community-centred responses in recent years.

Publication year: 2017    Reporting Agency: Oxfam    Author(s): Niederberger_E., Knight_L., O'Reilly_M.