Urban WASH Lessons Learned from Post - Earthquake Response in Haiti

Author(s)
Forster, T.
Publication language
English
Pages
11pp
Date published
06 May 2011
Type
Evaluation reports
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, Disasters, Earthquakes, Environment & climate, Response and recovery, Urban
Countries
Haiti
Organisations
Oxfam

Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities. This paper examines the lessons learned from the WASH response to the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. The paper also gives practical case studies of some of the success and failures from the WASH activities, undertaken in a very high-density urban/peri-urban context.