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Oxfam handwashing kit at this year's AidEx, Brussels. Photo: Joel Trotter

Handwashing innovation

Joel Trotter

November 19th, 2018 Emergencies, Humanitarian, Innovation, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Joel Trotter describes how it feels to see Oxfam’s brand-new handwashing kit tested, refined, and ready to go into action. Oxfam’s Promotion and Practice Handwashing Kit is a robust, user-friendly …

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Dunster House’s mould of a urine diverting plastic latrine slab. Image: Dunster House

Reinventing the toilet

Brian McSorely

November 19th, 2018 Emergencies, General, Humanitarian, Innovation, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Brian McSorley on Oxfam’s contribution to ensuring the poorest people on the planet have access to a loo. Earlier this month, Bill Gates stood up to address an international conference …

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A woman uses her water credit, which is stored in a small, plastic token, to buy water from a Water ATM in Hadado, Kenya. Credit: Katie G. Nelson/Oxfam

Taking emergency water, sanitation and hygiene to market

Esther Shaylor

March 1st, 2018 Humanitarian, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Esther Shaylor explains how Oxfam is working with other NGOs to share learning about providing emergency water, sanitation and hygiene using local markets. In recent years there has been a …

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Podcast: Emergency sanitation in focus

Andy Bastable

December 18th, 2017 Emergency, Humanitarian, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Esther Shaylor talks to Andy Bastable, Oxfam’s expert on public health engineering, about the challenge of providing sustainable sanitation in emergencies. What happens when toilets in camps are not well …

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A woman walks through Hassansham camp for displaced people, near the town of Khazer, Iraq, December 2016.

All these unused toilets – who are we building them for?

Kerry Akers and Julie Lafrenière

November 16th, 2017 General, Protection, Refugees and IDPs, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Going to the toilet is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a woman living in a refugee camp. That’s why we’re conducting research into the use …

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Sustainable emergency sanitation – no longer a pipe dream!

Lucy Polson

November 16th, 2017 General, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

How do you install safe and sustainable toilets in crowded refugee camps which are on boggy or rocky ground? We might have the answer. For World Toilet Day Lucy Polson …

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Tiger worms: the little sanitation engineers

Mee Mee Htun

August 24th, 2017 Humanitarian, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Could tiger worms be the answer to some of the challenges of providing toilets in refugee and displaced people camps? Oxfam is conducting a pilot project to find out, working …

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A team hired by the railway company maintain draining ditches alongside the track that runs through Mukuru informal settlement, in Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: Sam Tarling

Taking a toilet break: on the railway line

Caroline Sweetman

July 13th, 2017 Gender, Gender & Development Journal, General, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Having unmet needs for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) not only endangers life, it can negatively affect all aspects of daily existence, and women and girls suffer the most. Editor, …

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Podcast – Tiger worms: An innovative solution to sanitation

Angus McBride

March 22nd, 2017 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

In the first of our new podcast series on humanitarian learning, we’re diving into the world of tiger worms. Oxfam’s Sophie Mack Smith talks to Angus McBride, Public Health Engineering Team Leader. …

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Local toilets and a temporary bridge, modified and built in an effort to adapt to the flooding in Tala, Bangladesh.

Help! My toilet is sinking!

Lousie Medland

March 22nd, 2017 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Louise Medland, Carol Brady and Jessica Fullwood-Thomas examine the long term effects of annual flooding and waterlogging on people’s lives in Bangladesh.  Heavy rainfall during July and August in 2011 …

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