Water
Sanitation
Hygiene and Health
Wash Approaches
This Technical Brief looks at the planning and design options for lighting in and around toilets in humanitarian situations, both during the day and…
This technical brief looks at the ways WASH market systems are affected by humanitarian crises and the ways in which humanitarian actors can work…
Introduction Where large groups of people are displaced either by conflict or by natural disaster and they are likely to stay in a location…
Public Health: Disease Outbreak Preparedness & Response Planning For Acute Watery Diarrhoea (Awd) & Cholera PART I: PREPAREDNESS Objective: Increase communities’ capacity to respond…
An Introduction to Community Engagement in WASH The humanitarian sector has been strengthening its focus on and commitment to community-centred responses in recent years.…
In 2018, Oxfam launched a new approach to better understand the perceptions and beliefs of crisis-affected communities, particularly in relation to diseasen outbreaks. Given…
Within the humanitarian sector, there is a misconception that public health promotion (PHP) involves little more than the distribution of nonfood items (NFIs), mass…
Guidance documents on WASH and climate change adaptation and extreme heat for field practitioners that have been researched and trialled in various countries The…
This checklist can be used as an aide-memoire for rapid WASH assessments. General Water Sanitation Excreta disposal Solid waste disposal Drainage
Our strategy sets out our global WASH vision, goal and objectives until 2025. Vision Women, men, and children affected by disaster, conflict, and the…
Solar power for pumping groundwater has a vast potential for improving the sustainability of water supply schemes. However experience also shows that a lack…
Standard Operating Procedures for Camps Double vault Urine Diversion Dry Toilets (UDDT) can be used as an alternative to pit latrines in refugee camps.…
Fostering community-led solutions and ensuring community ownership of the response
Why gender matters in humanitarian WASH responses In any crisis — whether natural disaster, conflict,…
“I want to live like you. Like any woman, with privacy for myself and my…
The impact of climate change on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) responses in humanitarian crises…
This paper presents Oxfam in Kenya’s experience with the e-voucher system as amarket-based approach for…
This report presents findings from a research project undertaken by Oxfam in collaborationwith the FCDO’s…
