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MHT works with women living in urban informal settlements to get access to services such as water, sanitation and electricity and secure tenure rights and property titles. Using […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits The Oxfam Handwashing Station; How to set up, use and maintain communal handwashing stations 16/09/2020 1 documents 8 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Coronavirus Oxfam Handwashing Station WASH Overview The Oxfam Handwashing Station is a durable, low-cost, easy to set up, use and transport handwashing station that can be put up in any open space in a variety of emergency and development contexts. The handwashing kit, which has been extensively field tested, features a 24-litre water tank and a 4-litre internal liquid soapy water […] View resource Research report Water Supply in Protracted Humanitarian Crises: Reflections on the sustainability of service delivery models 03/09/2020 1 documents 42 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Humanitarian response Refugees WASH Water supply Overview UNHCR estimates that the average time spent by a refugee in a camp is 10 years, while the average refugee camp remains for 26 years. WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) is a crucial component of humanitarian response and longer-term recovery. Humanitarian agencies and host governments face many challenges in protracted situations and complex long-term humanitarian […] View resource Research report Menstrual Hygiene Management Among Syrian Refugee Women in the Bekaa 18/06/2020 1 documents 38 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords gender Healthcare Informal Tented Settlements Lebanon Menstrual Hygiene Management Menstruation Patriarchal norms Refugee Syria WASH Overview This research paper explores the different challenges related to menstrual hygiene faced by Syrian refugee women residing in Informal Tented Settlements (ITSs) in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. The piece first looks at women’s distinct lived experiences and practices, focusing on products, safety and health, and delving into the implications of those challenges on paid […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits Resources for Community Engagement in WASH 21/05/2020 2 documents 4 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Community engagement Coronavirus COVID-19 Emergency response Public health Overview The overall aim of Oxfam’s WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) response in emergencies is to minimize public health risks in relation to water, sanitation and hygiene. This means working more directly with a wide range of people affected by the crisis to better understand them, to motivate them to make positive behaviour changes, and to […] View resource Briefing paper Whatever It Takes: A rapid and massive increase in aid is needed to save millions of lives and bring our divided world together amid the coronavirus pandemic 06/05/2020 4 documents 32 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Coronavirus Food security Healthcare Social protection Overview The coronavirus pandemic will have devastating health, social and economic impacts in the world’s poorest countries. To measure up to this once-in-a-century crisis, save lives and build a better future, donors must urgently and massively increase international aid funds. Oxfam estimates rich countries’ fair share of aid in response to the crisis would be nearly […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits Resources for Community Engagement during Covid-19 27/04/2020 9 documents 7 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Community engagement Coronavirus COVID-19 Participation Overview Community engagement is vital during the Coronavirus pandemic. Oxfam’s experience of working in humanitarian contexts, and in the recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks, has shown that the best way to respond is to: Build trust in communities and services Understand community perspectives and share information Work with communities to determine how to keep people safe […] View resource Briefing note Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 6: The case for gender-transformative water programmes 22/03/2020 1 documents 12 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Gender equality Sustainable Development Goals Unpaid care and domestic work WASH Water Overview As we approach the 10-year countdown to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is clear we are far from achieving SDG 5 on gender equality, and SDG 6 on universal access to water and sanitation. While gender equality and access to safe water and sanitation are often treated as separate issues, they are deeply linked […] View resource Research report Faecal Sludge Management for Disaster Relief: Technology Comparison Study 04/02/2020 1 documents 100 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Faecal sludge management Overview This report presents the findings of a study conducted by Arup on behalf of Oxfam to assess different faecal sludge management (FSM) methods at the Rohingya camps close to Cox's Bazar (CXB), Bangladesh. The aim of the study was to draw conclusions on best practices in FSM for disaster relief from evidence gathered through practical […] View resource Education resource Explore the work of Oxfam: Everybody eat, drink, earn and learn 17/12/2019 3 documents 18 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Oxfam, poverty, development, speaking and listening, English, global citizenship, charity, NGO, emergencies, campaigning Overview Oxfam is a global movement of millions of people who share the belief that, in a world rich in resources, poverty isn’t inevitable, and is an injustice that can and must be overcome. With links to English, geography and citizenship, these thought-provoking activities for ages 7-14 offer a fun way to develop speaking and listening […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 … Page 20 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know