Discussion Paper: Climate Resilient Hygiene - Key to Community Resilience

This discussion paper covers three topics: hand hygiene, menstrual hygiene and food hygiene and considers how climate change affects vulnerable populations in households and, to a lesser extent, institutional settings (including schools and health care facilities). Key learnings include the need to adapt all aspects of hygiene programming to ensure that hygiene services consider climate related threats and changes leading to more resilient communities and institutions. From the positioning of infrastructure, like hand washing stations, to the inclusion of climate and environment related messaging, hygiene programming needs to consider slow and fast onset climate related threats.