Shaping the future: Our strategy for research and innovation in humanitarian response.
This project aims to take a fresh look at the way we deliver water and sanitation facilities, and hygiene promotion, to children in disasters. Clean water and hygienic sanitation facilities are crucial in saving lives in the aftermath of a disaster; however, the facilities which are provided are often unsuitable or dangerous for children, because they are designed for adults. We think that there are solutions out there including imaginative ways to promote hygiene issues to children, both in schools and at home. This project will pull ideas together, and begin to test them in Save the Children projects in Ethiopia and Pakistan.
With this grant from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund, we hope to answer some crucial questions which prevent children from using Water and Sanitation facilities. These include:
Although water and sanitation in emergencies is a well-established area of emergency response, there is a crucial gap in the provision of useable, safe facilities to children. This pilot study aims to pull together existing knowledge about solving this problem, and improve emergency responders’ understanding of the unique needs of children, and the dangers which can occur if their needs are overlooked. It will begin to develop innovative solutions to the problems that children face during emergencies, and ultimately help to save more lives.
This project aims to make best use of innovative solutions which may already exist, but aren’t developed or shared with the wider humanitarian community. We know that this is a crucial gap which stops lives being saved and that by addressing it the effectiveness of water and sanitation work in emergencies will be maximised.
Recognition – this project will raise awareness of this problem and begin to explore solutions, by means of a scoping study.
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