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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

As the globe tackles Coronavirus, this blog is highlighting the challenges of those affected and the systemic changes needed.

Bringing a market-based approach to humanitarian response design

Katie Whitehouse

May 30th, 2017 Cash transfers, Humanitarian, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Oxfam has been working with the BEAM Exchange to find out how market-based programming can be applied to WASH based programmes. Katie Whitehouse shares how it works. There is a …

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Residents collect water from a communal pipe, right next to an open sewer and drain

The forgotten nexus of sanitation, hygiene & water: Is this the inhibitor to progress?

Katie Whitehouse

November 18th, 2016 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

In the lead-up to World Toilet Day, Oxfam’s Katie Whitehouse looks at how water, sanitation, hygiene and development are connected. n the 1800s, towns and cities across the world, including …

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Making standards practical is critical to sanitation innovation for rapidly expanding urban areas in developing countries

Katie Whitehouse

November 18th, 2016 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

WASH solutions can only implemented when they work in context. Coming up to World Toilet Day, Katie Whitehouse explains why, in some cases, standards may not be achievable. ontainer based …

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A toilet block built by Oxfam at a temporary schools in Gorkha, Nepal.

The dilemma of managing toilets

Katie Whitehouse

November 18th, 2016 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Where there are no sewers to connect to, we need to find other ways to manage waste. Here Katie Whitehouse looks at some of the issues that come with having …

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Building latrines in Logan Town, Liberia.

Toilet access is dominating programme delivery but what is the point of building more toilets if we cannot manage them?

Katie Whitehouse

November 18th, 2016 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Tomorrow is World Toilet Day and here, Katie Whitehouse looks at how building a toilet isn’t the end of the story and we need sustainable approaches to Water, Sanitation and …

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