UNHCR WASH RESOURCES

This document contains documentation to help UNHCR and WASH actors install emergency communal shower blocks (wood and plastic) in refugee settings. The package includes: Technical Drawings; Step by Step Construction Drawings; Bills of Quantity; Material and Workmanship Specifications; and Design Calculations.

Tags: Bathing Facilities and Hygiene Promotion. Languages: English. Organisations: UNHCR. Categories: WASH Emergency Guidelines, WASH Reference Documents, and WASH Technical Designs.

This document contains documentation to help UNHCR and WASH actors install emergency trench latrines (poles and plastic) in refugee settings. The package includes: Technical Drawings; Step by Step Construction Drawings; Bills of Quantity; Material and Workmanship Specifications; and Design Calculations.

Tags: Communal Toilets and Excreta Management. Languages: English. Organisations: UNHCR. Categories: WASH Emergency Guidelines, WASH Reference Documents, and WASH Technical Designs.

This report applies the life-cycle costs approach (LCCA) to the provision of water services in two UN refugee camps, Bambasi in Ethiopia and Kounoungou in Chad. It is based on cost data from financial reports in Geneva and both camps and on service-level data collected through the UNHCR monitoring system and on site through water point surveys.
The purpose of the study was (1) to better understand the structure, magnitude and drivers of the cost of providing a targeted level of water service to refugees, and (2) to reflect on the applicability of LCCA in the UNHCR monitoring framework and the potential for implementing it in systematically.

Tags: Value for Money and WASH Strategy Development. Locations: Africa, Bambasi, Chad, East and Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Kounoungou, and Sudan and Chad Special Operational Region. Languages: English. Organisations: IRC (International Water and Sanitation Centre) and UNHCR. Categories: WASH Reference Documents and WASH Research Documents.

These rapid (emergency) assessment tools can be used to help assess water supply, excreta management, solid waste management, hygiene and disease vector control conditions in the following refugee settings: These rapid (emergency) assessment tools can be used to help assess water supply, excreta management, solid waste management, hygiene and disease vector control conditions in the following refugee settings: Camps; Settlements; Transit Centres; Schools; Health Centres and Urban Settlements. It also contains references to UNHCR’s WASH indicators and recommendations for data collection.

Tags: WASH Assessments. Languages: English. Organisations: UNHCR. Categories: WASH Blank Forms, WASH Emergency Guidelines, WASH Emergency Tools, and WASH Reference Documents.

These sample terms of reference may be used should WASH actors working in refugee settings with to engage the services of a Consultant to carry out hydrogeological surveys of pre-selected areas. The terms of reference cover the following areas…
Evaluating the groundwater situation based on compilation of existing relevant data (e.g. drilling logs) with additional classical hydrogeological field data collection (e.g. survey of water points, water levels, water quality) leading to the identification of favourable exploration zones
Carrying out groundwater exploratory field geophysical investigations to identify exact drilling locations, and
Supervising the drilling process and on the spot reporting on the progress.

Tags: Boreholes, Drilling, and Water Prospection and Investigation. Languages: English. Organisations: UNHCR. DatabaseDocTypes: Hydrogeological Surveys. Categories: WASH Blank Forms, WASH Emergency Guidelines, WASH Policy Guidelines, WASH Reference Documents, and WASH Terms of Reference.

This technical brief is intended to provide guidance for UNHCR staff and Partners involved in winterization of WASH facilities in the current European refugee and migrant situation.

Tags: Bathing Facilities, Cold Climates, Cross Cutting, Excreta Management, Hygiene Promotion, Piped Water Networks, and Water Supply. Locations: Central Europe and the Baltic States, Eastern Europe, and Europe. Languages: English. Organisations: UNHCR. Categories: WASH Emergency Guidelines, WASH Emergency Tools, WASH Guidelines, WASH Operational Guidelines, WASH Policy Guidelines, and WASH Reference Documents.

Where required, UNHCR and WASH actors may use this template to develop a solid waste management action plan that describes a list of prioritised solid waste management activities in addition to WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN and HOW they will be carried out.

Tags: Landfill Management, Solid Waste Management, WASH Assessments, WASH Monitoring, and Waste Recycling , Reuse and Reduction. Languages: English. Organisations: UNHCR. Categories: WASH Blank Forms and WASH Reference Documents.

This form can be used to assess the refugee landfill site for public health and environmental sanitary risk factors.

Tags: Landfill Management, Solid Waste Management, WASH Assessments, and WASH Monitoring. Languages: English. Organisations: UNHCR. Categories: WASH Blank Forms and WASH Reference Documents.

UNHCR field staff and their partners should conduct a waste composition assessment to assess the types of waste being produced and their and rates of production. Ideally the assessment should be carried out within the first three months of a displacement emergency and then at least once a year. Waste management short, medium and long term strategies for each waste stream should be revaluated and reorganised according to the findings of this assessment.

Tags: Environment, Landfill Management, Medical Waste Management, Solid Waste Management, WASH Assessments, WASH Monitoring, and Waste Recycling , Reuse and Reduction. Languages: English. Organisations: UNHCR. Categories: WASH Blank Forms and WASH Reference Documents.