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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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Innovation Catalogue: A Collection of Innovations for the Humanitarian Sector

Over the last few years, we have heavily invested in funding and supporting innovation and research in the WASH sector, highlighting gaps in evidence, exploring the problems, identifying opportunities where innovation can play a vital role, and funding the righ

Publication year: 2019    Reporting Agency: Elrha    Author(s): Elrha

Sanitation and disasters: a case study of community and institutional response to Cyclone Phailin, Odisha 2013

There is a new shift in political interest in sanitation in India with the newly launched Swacha Bharat Abhiyan on 2 October 2014.

Publication year: 2015    Reporting Agency: University College London    Author(s): Krishnan_S., Purwar_D., Borah_B.

Could the Supertowel be used as an alternative hand cleaning product for emergencies? An acceptability and feasibility study in a refugee camp in Ethiopia

Background. Diarrhoeal diseases are a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in humanitarian crises.

Publication year: 2019    Reporting Agency: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine    Author(s): White_S., Petz_J., Desta_K., Larson_T.

Assessing emotional motivators for handwashing with soap in emergencies: results from three Asian countries

This paper examines how emotional motivators can be used to promote handwashing with soap (HWWS) among mothers affected by an emergency.

Publication year: 2019    Reporting Agency: Oxfam    Author(s): Sagan_S., Tolani_F., O'Reilly_M., Daryanani_A.

The Case-Area Targeted Rapid Response Strategy to Control Cholera in Haiti: a Four-year Implementation Study

Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic. The Haitian government, UNICEF and other international partners launched an unprecedented nationwide alert-response strategy in July 2013.

Publication year: 2019    Reporting Agency: Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Marseille    Author(s): Rebaudet_S., Bulit_G., Gaudart_J., Michel_E., Gazin_P., Evers_C., Beaulieu_S., Aruna Abedi_A., Osei_L., Barrais_R., Pierre_K., Moore_S., Boncy_J., Adrien_P., Duperval Guillaume_F., Beigbeder_E., Piarroux_R.

Assessment of water sanitation and hygiene interventions in response to an outbreak of typhoid fever in Neno District Malawi

On May 2, 2009 an outbreak of typhoid fever began in rural villages along the Malawi-Mozambique border resulting in 748 illnesses and 44 deaths by September 2010.

Publication year: 2018    Reporting Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC    Author(s): Bennett_S., Lowther_S., Chingoli_F., Chilima_B., Kabuluzi_S., Ayers_T., Warne_T., Mintz_E.

Menstrual Hygiene Management During Emergencies: A Study of Challenges Faced by Women and Adolescent Girls Living in Flood-prone Districts in Assam

Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges. This study brings out various cultural and logistical issues faced by women and adolescent girls in taking care of their menstrual hygiene needs during floods.

Publication year: 2019    Reporting Agency: Sikun Relief Foundation    Author(s): Bhattacharjee_M.

Community Engagement in WASH Emergencies: Understanding Barriers and Enablers Based on Action Research from Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Engaging communities in humanitarian programming is key to ensuring their participation in decision-making that affects them as outlined by commitment 4 of the Core Humanitarian Standards.

Publication year: 2019    Reporting Agency: Oxfam    Author(s): Niederberger_E., Glanville-Wallis_T.

Childs play: Harnessing play and curiosity motives to improve child handwashing in a humanitarian setting

In humanitarian emergency settings there is need for low cost and rapidly deployable interventions to protect vulnerable children, in- and out-of-school, from diarrhoeal diseases.

Publication year: 2019    Reporting Agency: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine    Author(s): Watson_J., Dreibelbis_R., Aunger_R., Deola_C., King_K., Long_S., Chase_R., Cumming_O.