This webinar summarizes UNHCR operational messages on WASH preparedness and response to COVID-19.
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WASH Webinar on COVID-19- (UNHCR, 2020)
COVID-19 WASH Technical Brief (WHO, UNICEF 2020)
This Technical Brief summarizes WHO guidance on water, sanitation and health care waste which is relevant for viruses (including coronaviruses). This Technical Brief is written in particular for water and sanitation practitioners and providers.
Key Messages and Actions for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Schools
Guidance for COVID-19 prevention and control in schools including actions for school administrators, teachers, staff, parents, community members, and students.
- Tags: Coronavirus, Coronavirus, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19, and COVID-19. Organisations: IFRC, UNICEF, WHO, and WHO.
D-702/2016a WASH Block – 20ft Container Conversion (Sinks Only) Design and BoQ (UNHCR, 2016)
This document contains materials to help UNHCR and WASH actors convert 20ft shipping containers into WASH Blocks (14 sinks) with drainage.
- Categories: WASH Technical Designs.
F-200/2015a Summary of Important WASH Diseases in Refugee Settings (UNHCR, 2015)
This document provides a quick summary of the most important WASH related diseases for refugee settings and includes a list of recommended control strategies.
- Tags: Bloody Diarrhoea, Communicable Disease Control, and Watery Diarrhoea. Categories: WASH Blank Forms.
Sphere Minimum Standards and Indicators for Humanitarian Response (SPHERE PROJECT, 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: Capacity Building, Cross Cutting, Cross Cutting, Cross Cutting, Cross Cutting, Disability, Environment, Gender, Gender Based Violence, Grey Water Disposal, Grey Water Disposal, Human Right to Water / Sanitation, Laundering Facilities, Laundering Facilities, Menstruation Hygiene Management, Piped Water Networks, Protection, WASH Coordination, and WASH Programme Management. Organisations: SPHERE.
Excreta Disposal in Emergencies – A Field Manual (WEDC, 2007)
The purpose of the manual is to provide practical guidance on how to select, design, construct and maintain appropriate excreta disposal systems in emergency situations. Relevant situations include natural disasters, relief for refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and complex emergencies, focusing on rural and peri-urban areas. The manual presents a process, which can be followed to assess the current excreta disposal needs and priorities, and to design an appropriate programme to respond to those needs. It can also be used to select appropriate excreta disposal technologies, systems, and hygiene promotion interventions. The manual provides guidance on how to plan, design and construct systems, and how to maintain and promote appropriate use of those systems.
- Tags: Communal Toilets, Communal Toilets, Desludging and Excreta Transportation, Excreta Treatment, and Household Toilets. Organisations: WEDC.
Soap is not enough: handwashing practices and knowledge in refugee camps, Maban County, South Sudan (Buffalo University, 2012)
Refugees are at high risk for communicable diseases due to overcrowding and poor water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions. Handwashing with soap removes pathogens from hands and reduces disease risk. A hepatitis E outbreak in the refugee camps of Maban County, South Sudan in 2012 prompted increased hygiene promotion and improved provision of soap, handwashing stations, and latrines. We conducted a study 1 year after the outbreak to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the refugees in Maban County.
- Tags: Hygiene Behaviour Change. Organisations: Buffalo University. Categories: WASH Research Documents.
UNHCR Refugee WASH Indicators and Targets (UNHCR, 2020)
A summary of UNHCR water, excreta management, solid waste management, disease vector control and hygiene promotion standards and indicators for emergency and post emergency refugee settings including means of verification.
- Tags: Bathing Facilities, Bathing Facilities, Disease Vector Control, Disease Vector Control, Drainage, Drainage, Drainage, Solid Waste Management, Solid Waste Management, WASH Assessments, WASH Assessments, WASH Monitoring, WASH Monitoring, WASH Strategy Development, Water Supply, Water Supply, Water Supply, and Water Supply. Categories: WASH Indicators and Standards.
Hepatitis E Response in Refugee Settings (UNHCR, 2015)
This brief is intended to highlight key elements of an effective response to an outbreak of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in refugee setting. It focuses on specific response actions, including the review of common risks associated with health, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). The overall implementation of response actions and mode of operation should be context specific, as highlighted by the examples given from Dadaab (Ifo) Kenya and South Sudan.
- Tags: Bulk Water Treatment, Excreta Management, Excreta Management, Excreta Management, Excreta Management, Excreta Management, Household Water Treatment, Household Water Treatment, Hygiene Promotion, Hygiene Promotion, Hygiene Promotion, Hygiene Promotion, Hygiene Promotion, Hygiene Promotion, Hygiene Promotion, Hygiene Promotion, Hygiene Promotion, Public Health, Public Health, Public Health, Public Health, Public Health, Public Health, Water Quality Testing and Surveillance, Water Quality Testing and Surveillance, Water Quality Testing and Surveillance, Water Safety Plans, and Water Safety Plans. Locations: Africa, Africa, Dadaab, East and Horn of Africa, Kenya, South Sudan, South Sudan, Sudan and Chad Special Operational Region, and Sudan and Chad Special Operational Region. Languages: English, English, English, English, English, English, English, English, English, and English. Organisations: UNHCR, UNHCR, UNHCR, UNHCR, UNHCR, and UNHCR. Categories: WASH Emergency Guidelines, WASH Guidelines, WASH Guidelines, WASH Operational Guidelines, WASH Policy Guidelines, WASH Reference Documents, 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.