Guidance Note. The recommended actions are presented under the different components (water supply, hygiene and hand washing, disinfection, solid waste management, latrine and wastewater management, and dead body management) of the defined Ebola Care Centre/Unit
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WASH package to complement community and house-to-house level interventions
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The compendium is designed for use by staff working directly with communities - e.g. health workers and community volunteers working with disabled and older people and their families in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
A few examples of technologies are presented that families can adapt to suit t
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heir needs and budgets. Many more options are possible. Most of the ideas are suitable for disabled and older people, but are not only for them. As we get older, many of us find it increasingly difficult to squat and balance, or we might be injured or sick. These technologies might also make facilities easier and more comfortable to use by everyone in the family. The ideas are designed to be suitable for household facilities, not for institutional facilities - e.g. schools and clinics - although some ideas might also be useful in these settings
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This page enables users to be directly linked to the technical Q&A platform in order to ask questions to Ebola Specialists in real-time. It also aims at providing up-to-date WASH guidelines, manuals and news in evolving Ebola response. Users can acc
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ess the platform by clicking the link below or directly ask a question using the ASK button on the right-hand side on the website http://washcluster.net/wash-in-ebola/
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El Marco de monitoreo del WASH Cluster Honduras es un documento de referencia para el monitoreo de las actividades que realizan los socios en terreno y para los puntos focales que están a cargo de reportar las actividades en la plataforma. El GTMI
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Honduras liderado por OCHA utiliza la plataforma 345W de OCHA para el monitoreo de actividades como única herramienta para el reporte.
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Over 3000 resources to use with your projects, training, and community education in different languages
Download these technical notes directly from the website: These four-page illustrated notes, originally prepared in 2011 and updated in 2013, provide practical, evidence-based recommendations in responding to immediate and medium-term water, sanitation and hygiene needs of populations affected by e
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mergencies.
The notes are relevant to a wide range or emergency situations, including both natural and conflict-induced disasters. They are suitable for field technicians, engineers and hygiene promotors, as well as staff from agency headquarters.
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The WASH in Ebola DROPBOX (click to access on hte website https://www.dropbox.com/sh/po2i7g09grfb94d/AADRA_CE5HNSEP1vBxgWOnJ3a?n=124754289) supports operational agencies responding to Ebola providing all available technical guidelines, manuals, coor
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dination and training related information. The DROPBOX continues to be updated on regular basis, if you have any relevant documents to share, please send them to washinebola@gmail.com.
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Reliable access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) protects lives during the pandemic, and provides a foundation for economic recovery while preventing new infections. USAID is helping to mitigate the economic impact of COVID-19 on water
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and sanitation systems, protect progress, and support speed recovery. During this global pandemic, the Globalwaters.org team will share the latest resources from USAID and select sectors that cover COVID-19 and WASH.
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A practioner's guide, based on lessons from Ebola.
This guide is a compilation of best practices and key lessons learned through Oxfam’s experience of community engagement during the 2014–15 Ebola response in Sierra Leone and Liberia. It aims to inform public health practitioners and programme
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teams about the design and implementation of community-centred approaches
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Esta nota de orientación elaborada por el UNICEF tiene por objeto ayudar al personal de agua, saneamiento e higiene en su preparación y respuesta a la actual pandemia de COVID-19. Proporciona una visión general de la prevención y el control de las infecciones (IPC) y su intersección con el agua
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, el saneamiento y la higiene (WASH), y cómo el personal puede ayudar a prevenir la infección y su propagación en las escuelas, ya sea a través de la relación entre personas o tocando superficies contaminadas con el virus. Los servicios de WASH, incluyendo la gestión de residuos y la limpieza del medio ambiente, son todos importantes para el CPI. Este informe está disponible en inglés, español y francés aquí.
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This guidance note developed by UNICEF explains how the WASH sector can implement infection prevention and control measures in households and community settings. It focuses on reducing the exposure to the disease in vulnerable community settings and
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public spaces, and the transmission of the disease in home and community settings hosting patients and contacts. This brief is available in English, Spanish, and French here.
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UNICEF Syria’s series of think pieces. Every day counts. An outlook on child protection for the most vulnerable children in Syria.To navigate the complex and continuously changing context and attain sustainable results for children, UNICEF – along with other UN agencies - seeks to make a shift i
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n its programming towards early recovery while maintaining the delivery of humanitarian assistance based on needs on the ground. This will help strengthen the linkages between the needs-based emergency response and essential service restoration, socioeconomic resilience, and social cohesion.
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SITUATION ANALYSIS
• In Syria, nine years into the crisis, access to sucient quantities of safe water remains limited, with increased water quality assurances and support to water systems rehabilitation, operation and maintenance unconditionally needed.
• There is a need to maintain the provis
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ion of adequate WASH services and supplies for IDPs especially in the northeast and northwest, and to promote transition to more sustainable solutions while acknowledging that more emphasis on IDPs in collective centers and open areas is also needed.
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East and West Hararghe zones are located within Oromia region, one of the largest and most populated regions of Ethiopia. Like many parts of Oromia and the country, over 80% of the people in East and West Hararghe rely on agricultural livelihoods. This baseline survey target districts are Babile, an
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d Kersa in East Hararghe, and Mieso woreda in West Hararghe zone. Babile woreda has a population of 117,682 residing in 22 kebeles. The woreda hosts 14, 545 displaced households from neighboring region Somali. Kersa woreda bordered on the south by Bedeno, on the west by Meta, on the north by Dire Dawa, on the northeast by Haro Maya, and on the southeast by Kurfa Chele. The woreda has a population of 243,544 peoples residing in 38 kebeles and it has hosted 874 household IDPs displaced from Somali region. Mieso woreda is bordered on the south by Guba Koricha, on the west by the Afar Region, on the north by the Somali Region, on the east by Doba and on the southeast by Chiro. It has a total population of 130,709.
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Cette note d'orientation développée par l'UNICEF est destinée à aider le personnel WASH dans sa préparation et sa réponse à la pandémie actuelle de COVID-19. Elle donne un aperçu de la prévention et du contrôle des infections (IPC) et de
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son intersection avec l'eau, l'assainissement et l'hygiène (WASH), et explique comment le personnel peut contribuer à prévenir l'infection et sa propagation dans les écoles, que ce soit par contact entre humains ou avec des surfaces contaminées par le virus. Les services WASH, y compris la gestion des déchets et le nettoyage de l'environnement, sont tous importants pour la CIP. Ce dossier est disponible en anglais, espagnol et français ici.
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Esta nota de orientación elaborada por el UNICEF explica cómo el sector del agua, el saneamiento y la higiene puede aplicar medidas de prevención y control de las infecciones en los hogares y las comunidades. Se centra en la reducción de la exposición a las enfermedades en entornos comunitarios
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y espacios públicos vulnerables, así como en la transmisión de enfermedades en los hogares y entornos comunitarios con pacientes y contactos. Este dossier está disponible en inglés, español y francés aquí.
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