Environment, Climate Change, One Health and Migration
The Department for Environment, Climate Change, One Health and Migration works to prevent disease and promote health by addressing key areas of environmental health including climate change, clean energy; air quality; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); and chemicals and radiation. Health threats are addressed through a One Health approach that crosses the human, animal, and environmental sectors. It also promotes inclusive health policies and resilient health systems to meet the needs of migrants, refugees and displaced populations.
Training on environment, climate change and health
Water, sanitation and hygiene
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Credits
Monitoring
Training
- WASH accounts training package
- WASH accounts video tutorials
- Demonstration of water quality test used in household surveys
- PAHO: Water, sanitation and hygiene in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Estimation methodology for SDG Indicators 6.1, 6.2, 6.3.1
Resources
- WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) website
- UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) data portal
- JMP households’ country files
- JMP schools’ country files
- JMP WASH in schools methodology (draft November 2021)
- Country files for SDG 6.3.1: "Proportion of wastewater safely treated"
- WASH accounts and TrackFin
- Core questions and indicators for monitoring WASH in Schools in the Sustainable Development Goals. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
- GLAAS website
- Climate-resilient WASH monitoring
- State of the world’s sanitation. Available in English, French and Spanish
- State of the world's drinking water: An urgent call to action to accelerate progress on ensuring safe drinking water for all. Executive Summary in English and French
- State of the world's hand hygiene: A global call to action to make hand hygiene a priority in policy and practice
- Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene: 2019 update
- Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in schools 2015-2023: special focus on menstrual health
- Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2022: special focus on gender
- UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water GLAAS 2022 Report
- Progress on Wastewater Treatment – 2021 Update. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
- JMP methodology: 2017 update and SDG baselines
- JMP 2018 Core Questions for Household Surveys: Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
- Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater in agriculture and aquaculture. Volume 1 – 4 available in English and French
- Call to action on climate resilient sanitation
- Sanitation workers global report, research agenda and learning hub
- Reflecting on TrackFin 2012-2020
- Exploring the WHO/UNICEF JMP database on inequalities in WASH services (video)
- WHO/UNICEF JMP methods for monitoring SDG targets for WASH in households (video)
- SDG means of implementation: Targets 6.a & 6.b, the 2021/2022 GLAAS cycle (video)
- SDG Baselines: drinking water services (video)
- 2021 global status of water and sanitation (video)
- Exploring the WHO/UNICEF JMP database on inequalities in WASH services (video)
- SDG Baselines: Sanitation Services (video)
Reports
Related documents/videos
Guidelines and risk management
Training
- WHO Academy: For a healthier world: safely managed sanitation
- Sanitation safety planning SSP learning hub
- WHO Academy: Water safety planning for urban water supply systems an introduction
- Water safety plans training package.
- Water safety plan audit training. Training package and videos
- PAHO: Climate-resilient water safety Plans (Spanish and English)
Resources
- Guidelines on sanitation and health. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
- Guidelines for drinking-water quality: Fourth edition incorporating the first and second addenda, 2022
- Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Vol. 3: surveillance and control of community supplies.
- Guidelines for drinking-water quality: small water supplies
- Developing drinking-water quality regulations and standards, 2018
- A global overview of national regulations and standards for drinking-water quality
- Domestic water quantity, service level and health, 2nd edition
- Protecting surface water for health: Identifying, assessing and managing drinking-water quality risks in surface-water catchments
- Protecting groundwater for health: Managing the quality of drinking-water sources.
- Safe drinking-water from desalination
- Potable reuse: guidance for producing safe drinking-water, 2017
- Water safety in distribution systems
- Water safety in buildings
- Evaluating household water treatment options.
- International scheme to evaluate household water treatment technologies
- Toolkit for monitoring and evaluating household water treatment and safe storage
- Boil water
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA): application for water safety management.
- Water quality and health: review of turbidity
- Lead in drinking-water: health risks, monitoring and corrective actions
- Arsenic primer: guidance on the investigation and mitigation of arsenic contamination
- Chemical hazards in drinking-water
- Microplastics in drinking-water
- Toxic cyanobacteria in water, 2nd edition
- Management of radioactivity in drinking-water. Available in English and Chinese
- Additional drinking-water quality resources
- Water safety plan manual: step-by-step risk management for drinking-water suppliers, second edition, including Water safety plan templates and worked example
- Water safety plan: a field guide to improving drinking-water safety in small communities. Available in English, French and Russian
- Think big start small scale up: A road map to support country-level implementation of water safety plans
- Climate-resilient water safety plans: managing health risks associated with climate variability and change. Also available in French here
- A guide to equitable water safety planning: ensuring no one is left behind.
- A practical guide to auditing water safety plans. Available in English, French and Japanese
- Water safety portal
- Guidelines on recreational water quality: Volume 1 coastal and fresh waters
Tools
- Water safety plan manual, first edition: step-by-step risk management for drinking-water suppliers. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Polish, Korean, Persian
- Water safety planning for small community water supplies: step-by-step risk management guidance for drinking-water supplies in small communities. Available in English, French and Russian
- Sanitary inspection packages for drinking-water
- Water safety plan quality assurance tool
- PAHO: Climate-resilient water safety plans (Spanish and English)
- PAHO: Climate-resilient sanitation safety Planning (Spanish and English)
- Climate-resilient water safety plans: managing health risks associated with climate variability and change. Also available in French here
- Steps to achieve universal access to safely managed sanitation
- Sanitation inspections for sanitation systems for sanitation systems: user guide
- Sanitary inspection form for sanitation systems – PDF and tablet formats
- Sanitation safety planning manual – second edition Available in English, French, Russian, Spanish
- GCF Water Project Design Guidelines Part 3: Practical guidelines for designing climate-resilient sanitation projects
Reports
- State of the world’s sanitation. Available in English, French and Spanish
- State of the world's drinking water: An urgent call to action to accelerate progress on ensuring safe drinking water for all. Executive Summary in English and French
- State of the world's hand hygiene: A global call to action to make hand hygiene a priority in policy and practice
Related documents/videos
- Water safety planning: an introduction to WSP principles and steps (video)
- Introduction to sanitation safety planning (video)
WASH in specific settings – health care facilities, emergencies and schools
Training
- WHO Academy: Water and Sanitation for Health Facility Improvement Tool (WASH FIT) for improved quality of care
- WHO Academy: Mainstreaming of gender equality, disability and social inclusion in WASH in healthcare facilities
- WHO Academy: Standard precautions: Hand hygiene
- WHO Academy: Standard precautions: Waste management
- Training modules in health-care waste management
Resources
- WHO/UNICEF WASH FIT website
- JMP Global, regional and national data on WASH in HCF
- WHO/UNICEF WASH in HCFs knowledge portal and country progress tracker
- Consensus Statement: Role of policymakers and partners in implementing the Global Framework for Action on water, sanitation, hygiene, waste, and electricity services in health care facilities
- WASH FIT Implementation Report
- WHO guidance for climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities. Available in English, French and Spanish
- Surveillance of water, sanitation and hygiene in schools: a practical tool. Available in English and Russian
- Pandemic preparedness in schools
- Updated WHO/WEDC technical notes on WASH in emergencies.
- UNHCR WASH emergency tools
- UNHCR WASH manual for refugee settings
Tools
- WHO/UNICEF Country Progress Tracker. Online form to submit updates, available here
- Practical Guide: practical step-by-step guidance on adapting and using WASH FIT
- WASH FIT Manual for Trainers
- Training modules with trainer notes and participatory exercises.
- Fact sheet 1: Strengthening the resilience of WASH services in health care facilities to climate impacts
- Fact sheet 2: Gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI)
- Fact sheet 3: Safe plumbing for WASH services in health care facilities
- Fact sheet 4: Safe and sustainable health care waste management
- Fact sheet 5: Hand hygiene improvement: a multimodal approach
- Fact sheet 6: Environmental Cleaning
- Assessment form (excel and Kobo)
- How to use the WASH FIT assessment form in Kobo toolbox
Reports
- Universal water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity services in all health care facilities to achieve quality care: Global framework for action 2024–2030
- Implementation of the water and sanitation for health facility improvement tool (WASH FIT): Global Report
- Water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity services in health care facilities: progress on the fundamentals
- WASH in health care facilities 2023 data update: Special focus on primary health care
- Progress on WASH in health care facilities: Special focus on WASH and infection prevention and control (IPC)
- Global analysis of health care waste in the context of COVID-19
- WHO/UNICEF Global progress report on WASH in health care facilities fundamentals first in 2020. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
- WHO/UNICEF WASH in health care facilities: Practical steps to achieve universal access to quality care in 2019. Available in English, French, Spanish and Russian
- WHO/UNICEF JMP Core questions for monitoring water, sanitation and hygiene at health care facilities. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
Related documents/videos
- WHO guidance for climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities. Available in English, French and Spanish
- Global analysis of health care waste in the context of Covid-19 (video)
- Sanitation for health care facilities in the context of COVID-19 (video)
- Science in 5 -- medical waste (video)
- Environmental cleaning in the context of Covid-19 (video)
WASH-related diseases and risks
Training
- WHO Academy: Antimicrobial resistance in the environment: key concepts and interventions
- WHO Academy: Water, sanitation and hygiene for the prevention and care of neglected tropical diseases
Resources
- Water, sanitation, hygiene and health: A primer for health professionals
- Guidance on wastewater and solid waste management for manufacturing of antibiotics
- WASH and health working together: a ‘how-to’ guide for neglected tropical disease programmes, second edition, with core annexes and supplementary tools for situation analysis, planning and programme design, and implementation and monitoring
- Infection prevention and control and water, sanitation and hygiene measures for home care and isolation for mpox in resource-limited settings: interim operational guide
- Considerations for wastewater and environmental surveillance for monkeypox virus: Interim guidance
- Environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 to complement other public health surveillance
- Water and sanitation interventions to prevent and control mosquito borne disease: focus on emergencies
- Technical note: Water, sanitation and hygiene and infection prevention and control in cholera treatment structures
- Addressing climate change: supplement to the WHO water, sanitation and hygiene strategy 2018-2025
Tools
- Costing tool for estimating the cost of interventions to improve hand hygiene in domestic settings
- WASH-related disease burden estimation tool
- WASH-related burden of disease – Global Health Observatory
Reports
- Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene: 2019 update
Related documents/videos
- Antimicrobial resistance in the environment: Understanding the basics for national action, also in Spanish and French (video)
- WASH and antimicrobial resistance (video)