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Pacitan, Indonesia – Open Defecation Free

08 Jan 2015
Pacitan is the first district in Indonesia to successfully achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) status through the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing program or STMB Program. This video illustrates STBM implementation that emphasized empowerment...
Video, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
Video

Water for Life. Water and Sanitation as a Human Right

08 Jan 2015
Video on the UN-Water Interview Session at Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (Bonn, Germany), 20 June 2011. This session was organized by the United Nations Office to Support the International Decade for Action “Water for Life” 2005-2015/...
Video, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
Video

Water and sanitation: a partnership for change

08 Jan 2015
This video shows the International Federation Global Water and Sanitation Initiative (GWSI) in action at the Zambia Red Cross Society “Rural Water Supply Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion Project” In our world today: • more than one bill...
Video, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
Video

Zimbabwe: Water and Sanitation Crisis

08 Jan 2015
(Harare, November 19, 2013) — The water and sanitation crisis in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, places millions of residents at risk of waterborne disease. Five years after cholera killed over 4,000 people and sickened 100,000 more, the cond...
Video, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
Video

Scaling up Sanitation: Experiences and actions in Pakistan and Nepal

08 Jan 2015
Impact on lack of sanitation in rural communities and the well-being of families.
Video, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
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WATSAN: China community vulnerability reduction

08 Jan 2015
Rural homes in China that lack sanitation face health and hygiene issues, particularly during the flooding season. Red Cross programs, supported by the International Federation and funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department, have b...
Video, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
Research

Social Media Use during Disasters- A Review of the Knowledge Base and Gaps

07 Jan 2015
In 2009, for the first time, a majority of American adults reported the Internet was their preferred source for information and the most reliable source for news (Zogby Interactive, 2009). During disasters, the public is even more active online, in...
Research, Social Media in Disasters
Report

Workshop Report: Identification of Key Knowledge Gaps in Social Media Use During Disasters

07 Jan 2015
This report examines four types of challenges (operantional; social science; visual and data analytics; & technical challenges) in social media use during disasters. Workshop Report: Identification of Key Knowledge Gaps in Social Media Use During...
Report
Guidance material

Hashtag Standards for Emergencies

07 Jan 2015
As part of the ongoing close collaboration between OCHA and QCRI, regular conversations on how to improve crisis computing have taken place over the past few years. In May 2014, members of OCHA and QCRI met in Doha to discuss our ongoing efforts ...
Guidance material, Mapping and Geospatial Data
Research

Social Media in the Disaster Cycle- Useful Tools or Mass Distraction?

07 Jan 2015
Social media presents new vehicles for interactive communication and user-generated content using an array of Web- and mobile-based tools. As a result, platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are widely used around the world for entertainment but th...
Research, Mapping and Geospatial Data
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