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The UNHCR WASH Manual Part 1: Programme Guidance, provides practical  guidance for WASH programmes in refugee settings.
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UNHCR WASH MANUAL Part 1: Programme Guidance
Cash Based Interventions for WASH Programmes in Refugee Settings (UNHCR, 2016)
This report is based on a desk-based review of secondary data, comprising published material as well as grey literature, supplemented with key informant interviews for programmes that lacked documentation. Section One summarises the current use of CBI in WASH programming. Section Two summarises the best practices and lessons learned including challenges faced, drawing on evidence from the project examples found. Section Three provides recommendations and best practice guidance for use of CBI in refugee settings. Section Four details existing tools and guidance.
- Categories: WASH Policy Guidelines, WASH Policy Guidelines, and WASH Research Documents.
Camp Management Toolkit (NRC, 2008)
These guidelines explain what is camp management; the roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders; the importance of community participation and involvement; the importance of good coordination and coordination mechanisms; the importance of information management and data analysis; guidelines for registration and profiling; guidelines related to shelter, NFI distributions, health, water and sanitation, domestic energy, education, agriculture, livelihoods, protection and gender based violence activities; and guidelines for camp setup and closure.
- Organisations: NRC.
UNHCR WASH Monthly Report Card Guidelines (UNHCR, 2016)
This document provides guidance on how to access the WASH Report Card within TWINE, and fill in the different fields with the right information, with examples for easy comprehension.
- Categories: WASH Guidelines and WASH Guidelines.
F801/2015a – Toilet Block Management Sample Community Agreement (UNHCR, 2015)
This toilet block management sample community agreement can help define the responsibilities of the different stakeholders in operation and maintenance of WASH facilities from filling up the hand-washing water containers, and keeping the surroundings clean, to providing maintenance.
F-800/2015a Sample WASH Staffing Structure for Post Emergency Camp Setting (UNHCR, 2015)
A sample organigram for running a typical refugee WASH programme for 20,000 people in a post emergency camp based setting. The organigram gives an indication of how the WASH Team should be structured in addition to the tentative number of Coordinators, Team Leaders, Officer, and Assistant level staff that should be recruited.
- Categories: WASH Operational Guidelines, WASH Operational Guidelines, and WASH Operational Guidelines.
F-302/2015a Well Cleaning and Chlorination Log Sheet (UNHCR, 2015)
This is the standard UNHCR well cleaning and chlorination template for refugee settings available in PDF and MSExcel formats. The form should be completed each time a hand dug well is cleaned, chlorinated and tested for faecal coliforms. The form is available in MSExcel format so WASH actors can adapt the content to the context.
F-105/2015a Site Level Refugee WASH Operational Plan Template (UNHCR, 2015)
This template can be used to help UNHCR and WASH actors establish a simple WASH operational plan (WHO will do WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, and HOW and WHO will PAY and WHO will MONITOR). This template can be used in addition to the site level WASH Strategy Template.
- Organisations: UNHCR, UNHCR, UNHCR, UNHCR, UNHCR, UNHCR, and UNHCR. Categories: WASH Blank Forms, WASH Blank Forms, and WASH Blank Forms.
Sphere Minimum Standards and Indicators for Humanitarian Response (SPHERE, 2011)
The Sphere Handbook is one of the most widely known and internationally recognized sets of common principles and universal minimum standards for the delivery of quality humanitarian response.
- Tags: Bathing Facilities, Communal Toilets, Communal Toilets, Disease Vector Control, Drainage, Excreta Management, Excreta Management, Grey Water Disposal, Handwashing with Soap, Hygiene Promotion, Laundering Facilities, Menstruation Hygiene Management, Public Health, and Solid Waste Management. Organisations: SPHERE.
Emergency Water Sources (WEDC, 1997)
These guidelines have been designed to help those involved in the assessment of emergency water sources to collect relevant information in a systematic way, to use this information to select a source or sources and to determine the appropriate level of treatment required to make the water suitable for drinking.
- Tags: Boreholes, Bulk Water Treatment, Drilling, Groundwater, Hand Dug Wells, Hand Dug Wells, Handpumps, Household Water Treatment, Household Water Treatment, Piped Water Networks, Piped Water Networks, Rainwater Harvesting, Solar Pumping, Spring Protection, Water Prospection and Investigation, Water Pumping, Water Quality Testing and Surveillance, Water Quality Testing and Surveillance, Water Quality Testing and Surveillance, Water Safety Plans, Water Safety Plans, Water Storage, Water Supply, Water Supply, Water Supply, and Water Tankering. Languages: English, English, English, English, English, English, English, English, English, and English. Organisations: WEDC. Categories: WASH Emergency Guidelines, WASH Reference Documents, WASH Reference Documents, WASH Reference Documents, WASH Reference Documents, WASH Reference Documents, WASH Reference Documents, WASH Reference Documents, and WASH Reference Documents.