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

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.

Global Review of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Components in Rapid Response Mechanisms and Rapid Response Teams in Cholera Outbreak Settings

In recent outbreak settings, the use of rapid response teams (RRTs) to support the WASH sector has increased.

Publication year: 2019    Reporting Agency: UNICEF    Author(s): Ramos_M.

Response to Cholera Outbreaks - Area Targeted Interventions and Community Outbreak Response Teams

This operational guideline authored by UNICEF WASH Gregory Bulit and Monica Ramos, supports the establishment of case area targeted interventions (CATI) with dedicated community outbreak response teams (CORT) in a country affected by cholera.

Publication year: 2020    Reporting Agency: UNICEF    Author(s): Bulit_G., Ramos_M.