Coronavirus global health emergency

UN-Water Joint Statement: 31st Special Session of the General Assembly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
UN-Water Members
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- POLICY BRIEF: Integrated agriculture water management and health
- POLICY BRIEF: Food safety in the time of COVID-19
- ONLINE SEMINAR: Lessons from COVID-19 for one water one health
- BRIEF: Technical brief on water, sanitation, hygiene and wastewater management to prevent infections and reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance
- BRIEF: The dual threat of extreme weather and the COVID-19 crisis: Anticipating the impacts on food availability
- ARTICLE: Thinking the unthinkable: harnessing the pandemic to Improve SDG 6 capacity development
- DISCUSSION PAPER: SMART IRRIGATION – SMART WASH Solutions in response to the pandemic crisis in Africa
- The FAO Land & Water response to COVID-19
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- ARTICLE: Water system helps Kenyan students stay safe
- ARTICLE: Building up family farmers’ resilience through nature-based solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
International Labour Organization (ILO)
- ARTICLE: COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
- PUBLICATION: Safety and health at work 2020 – stop the pandemic: safety and health at work can save lives
- Technical note on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions in response to COVID-19
- BLOG: Hand washing at work – the key to staying safe
- STORY: Clean water for life and livelihoods amid pandemic
- POLICY BRIEF: Hand hygiene at the workplace: an essential occupational safety and health prevention and control measure against COVID-19
- STORY: Safe water, decent work in BARMM amid COVID-19
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- VIDEO: Water and hygiene services help combat COVID-19 pandemic
- VIDEO: Addressing COVID-19 in Ethiopia through clean water and good hygiene
- NEWSLETTER: Special edition newsletter on fighting COVID-19 with water and sanitation
- STORY: Supplying clean water to Yemen’s largest displacement camp
- POLICY BRIEF: UN Network on Migration: Enhancing access to services for migrants in the context of COVID-19 preparedness, prevention, and response and beyond
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- ARTICLE: Everything you need to know about washing your hands to protect against COVID-19
- PRESS RELEASE: Handwashing with soap, critical in the fight against coronavirus, is ‘out of reach’ for billions
- TECHNICAL NOTE: WASH Programme contribution to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prevention and response
- TECHNICAL NOTE: WASH and infection prevention and control measures in schools
- TECHNICAL NOTE: WASH and infection prevention and control in households and public spaces
- TECHNICAL NOTE: WASH and infection prevention and control in health-care facilities
- GUIDANCE NOTE: Understanding hygiene promotion in the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
- TECHNICAL NOTE: Monitoring and mitigating the secondary impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on WASH services availability and access
- ARTICLE: Protecting the most vulnerable children from the impact of coronavirus: an agenda for action
- Fact or fiction: How much do you know about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?
- ARTICLE: Rohingya children fight back against COVID-19, one pair of hands at a time
- PHOTO ESSAY: Curtailing COVID-19 in Yemen
- PRESS RELEASE: Over 5 million children face threat of cholera and acute water diarrhea in the midst of COVID-19 as Yemen gets heavy rains
- PHOTO ESSAY: COVID-19 in Yemen: a day in the life of Muna
- BRIEF: Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on menstrual health and hygiene
- WEBINAR: Period pivots: Exploring changing business models within Menstrual Health & Hygiene (MHH), 18 May
- VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in Schools, 21 May
- PRESS RELEASE: UN Humanitarian flight arrives in Venezuela with nutrition, water, hygiene and sanitation supplies
- GLOBAL HYGIENE SNAPSHOT: Pre-COVID19 hygiene baselines
- ARTICLE: A wake-up call: COVID-19 and its impact on children’s health and wellbeing
- ARTICLE: One of the best defences against coronavirus
- UNICEF/WHO INITIATIVE: Hand hygiene for all
- RESPONSE PLAN: Preparedness and response to COVID-19 for urban settlements
- VIDEO: COVID-19 humanitarian response by UNICEF Ecuador
- UNICEF/WHO REPORT: Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in schools report – special focus on COVID-19
- UNICEF/WHO REPORT: State of the world’s sanitation. An urgent call to transform sanitation for better health, environments, economies and societies
- UNICEF REPORT: Global Covid-19 Situation Report, December 2020
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
- STRATEGY: Supporting the Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Land-based Solutions for
Healthy People and a Healthy Planet
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
- Statements, policy briefs, stories, online events
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- VIDEO: Focusing on climate and health
- ARTICLE: Dovetailing disasters: how COVID-19 is compounding risk for Cambodian communities
- ARTICLE: How to soften the impact of coronavirus during conflict
- BLOG: For a lack of soap and clean water, disease flourishes
- ARTICLE: For planet, for people: UNDP-supported ecosystem-based adaptation project in Lao PDR moves forward with the backing of the Global Environment Facility
- ARTICLE: Resilience on the frontlines
- ARTICLE: Continuing vital health services in Guinea-Bissau during COVID-19
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
- RESOURCES: COVID-19: the role of the Water Convention and the Protocol on Water and Health
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA)
- POLICY BRIEF: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Arab Region An Opportunity to Build Back Better
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- STORY: Albania: how a lagoon became a frontline defence against climate change
- STORY: UNEP helps countries monitor sustainable development progress on water, despite COVID-19 challenges
- VIRTUAL EVENT: GENeva Environment Dialogues- special COVID-19 sessions
- STORY: How monitoring sewage could prevent a return of the coronavirus
- FACTSHEET: COVID-19, wastewater, and sanitation
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- ARTICLE: Green economies, a bulwark against COVID 19 for Lake Chad communities
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
- ARTICLE: As Bangladesh battles COVID-19 and the aftermath of Super Cyclone Amphan, women’s organizations lead their communities through recovery
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- VIDEO: How could coronavirus affect refugees?
- PRESS RELEASE: The rights and health of refugees, migrants and stateless must be protected in COVID-19 response
- Technical WASH guidance for COVID-19 preparedness and response in refugee settings
- WASH and energy checklist for health facilities in refugee camps/settlements
- Key UNHCR activities for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response
- LIVE BLOG: Refugees in the COVID-19 crisis
- PRESS RELEASE: As COVID-19 pandemic continues, forcibly displaced children need more support than ever
- ARTICLE: COVID-19: UNHCR warns of severe implications for annual monsoon response in Bangladesh
- ARTICLE: Space, shelter and scarce resources – coping with COVID-19
United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR)
- Dedicated webpage on human rights dimensions of COVID-19
- NEWS RELEASE: COVID-19: Do not forget internally displaced persons, UN expert urges Governments worldwide
- NEWS: COVID-19 will not be stopped without providing safe water to people living in vulnerability – UN experts
- ARTICLE: Kenya’s informal settlements need safe water to survive COVID-19
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
- STORY: What water and sanitation operators can do in the fight against COVID-19
- CAMPAIGN: #UtilitiesFightCovid
- STORY: Water for handwashing in slums is critical to prevent COVID-19 spreading
- VIDEO: from one of Nairobi’s informal settlements on handwashing support
- RESPONSE PLAN: COVID-19 response plan for 64 countries and key messages
- STORY: Youth in Nairobi slum use murals to educate the community about COVID-19
- TECHNICAL NOTE: Interim technical note on water, sanitation and hygiene for COVID-19 response in slums and informal urban settlements
- WEBINAR SERIES: Water utilities in the fight against COVID-19
- OUTCOME BRIEF: Webinar ‘slowing the spread in slums’
- OUTCOME BRIEF: Webinar ‘crisis management: strategy, assessment and decision-making’
- SURVEY: Water utilities and COVID-19
- POLICY BRIEF: COVID-19 in an Urban World
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
- STORY: Extreme weather events in a time of COVID-19
- STATEMENT: COVID-19 puts human rights of millions at risk
United Nations University (UNU)
- ARTICLE: Coronavirus and water pandemics: doing the math
- NEWSLETTER: Stopping coronavirus – what does the evidence say are the best measures?
World Bank Group
- BLOG POST: Handwashing with soap – a life-saving act
- BLOG POST: Latin America moving fast to ensure water services during COVID-19
- DOCUMENT: Water, sanitation, and hygiene. The first line of defense in the battle against COVID-19
- BLOG POST: On inflation and water tariffs: what are the trends?
- ANIMATION: Coronavirus (COVID-19): protect yourself and others
- BLOG POST: Natural disasters and vulnerable groups: Insights for an inclusive and sustainable recovery from COVID-19
- BLOG POST: Let’s talk about disaster risk during COVID-19
- BLOG POST: Leveraging Sudan’s natural resources against COVID-19 and locust swarms
- BLOG POST: Examining the pandemic’s impact on the irrigation and drainage sector and opportunities for recovery
World Food Programme (WFP)
- ARTICLE: A vaccine may come for coronavirus — but there isn’t one for climate change
- ARTICLE: Resilience building
- BLOG SERIES: World Food Programme insight on water issues
- BLOG SERIES: World Food Programme Insight on Covid-19 issues
- FACTSHEET: From outbreak to action: How WFP responded to COVID-19
- BLOG: Why sustainable food systems are needed in a post-COVID world
- STORIES FROM THE FIELD: World Food Programme and COVID-19
- PUBLICATIONS: VAM COVID-19
- BLOG: The chain that coronavirus cannot break
World Health Organization (WHO)
- ONLINE TRAINING: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) training
- TECHNICAL BRIEF (WHO/UNICEF): Water, sanitation, hygiene and waste management for COVID-19
- COVID-19 related infection and prevention control guidance
- SUPPORT: The COVID-19 hygiene hub
- EVENT: One World: together at home on Saturday, 18 April 2020
- DOCUMENT: Strengthening preparedness for COVID-19 in cities and urban settings
- OPEN WHO: free, open-access learning platform for health emergencies, with 10 online courses related to COVID-19
- WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY MEETING: Meeting the challenge of COVID-19: achieving sustainable WASH-safe health care facilities in the 2020s, 21 May
- The Seventy-third World Health Assembly Resolution: COVID-19 response
- STORY: WHO manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19
- DOCUMENT: Cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces in the context of COVID-19: interim guidance
- DOCUMENT: Water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management for the COVID-19 virus: interim guidance
- DOCUMENT: Recommendations to Member States to improve hand hygiene practices to help prevent the transmission of the COVID-19 virus: interim guidance
- Key messages and actions for COVID-19 prevention and control in schools
- BRIEF: Technical brief on water, sanitation, hygiene and wastewater management to prevent infections and reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance
- SNAPSHOT: Hygiene baselines pre-COVID-19: Global snapshot
- SNAPSHOT: Hygiene baselines pre-COVID-19: WHO European Region
- HIGHLIGHT: Hygiene: UN-Water GLAAS findings on national policies, plans, targets and finance
- WHO/UNICEF INITIATIVE: Hand hygiene for all
- UNICEF/WHO REPORT: Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in schools report – special focus on COVID-19
- WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19
- SCIENTIFIC BRIEF: Status of environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 virus
- GUIDANCE: Water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
- UNICEF/WHO REPORT: State of the world’s sanitation. An urgent call to transform sanitation for better health, environments, economies and societies
- UNICEF/WHO REPORT: The measurement and monitoring of water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) affordability: a missing element of monitoring of sustainable development goal (SDG) targets 6.1 and 6.2
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- ARTICLE: Economic slowdown as a result of COVID is no substitute for climate action
- ARTICLE: Tropical cyclone Harold challenges disaster and public health management
- WORKSHOP: Caribbean workshop on impact-based forecasting and risk scenario planning
UN-Water Partners with Special Status
Sanitation and Water for All (SWA)
- WEBINAR: COVID-19 and WASH with UNICEF, WHO, and Governments
- WEBINAR: Making WASH a political and financial priority in times of COVID-19
- Information on SWA webinar series on COVID-19 and WASH
- DOCUMENTS: Key documents and resources on COVID-19 and WASH (resources available in English, French and Spanish)
- RESOURCES AND TOOLS: COVID-19 and WASH
- Live: Country Experiences on COVID-19 and WASH
- CALL TO ACTION: World leaders’ call to action on COVID-19
- STATEMENT: Water, sanitation and hygiene: world leaders call for action on COVID-19
UN Global Compact | CEO Water Mandate
- WATER ACTION HUB: COVID-19
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation
- VIDEO: COVID19 and adequate sanitation (available in French, English and Spanish)
- Statement by the Special Rapporteur on human rights to water and sanitation
UN-Water Partners
Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST)
- TECHNICAL BRIEF: COVID-19 Summary for Sanitation Professionals
- POSTER: COVID-19 Safety for Emptiers
Global Water Partnership (GWP)
- Framework for WASH and climate reslience
- Scaling up commitment to meet planetary crises
- Call from Global Water Partnership West Africa (GWP-WA) for the fight against the pandemic
- WEBSITE: Responding to the COVID-19 crisis
- Call for higher ambition of adaption and inclusion of climate resilient water security in COVID-19 economic recovery plans
International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)
- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Disruptions: latest IAHR updates
- NEWS ARTICLE: Novel coronavirus found in wastewater
IHE Delft
- OPINION: The coronavirus pandemic will impact global security
IRC WASH
- ARTICLE: Strengthening water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems
- ARTICLE: A lesson that can save lives
- NEWSLETTER: Special focus on COVID-19
- WEBINAR: Addressing stakeholder concerns around testing sewage for COVID-19, 22 May
- ARTICLE: How to avoid a 20-year setback in the water and sanitation sector
- ARTICLE: How civil society is adapting WASH advocacy to COVID-19
- NEWSLETTER: Special focus on COVID-19
- NEWSLETTER: Special focus on COVID-19
- NEWSLETTER: Special focus on COVID-19
- BLOG: Hygiene promotion should be a long-term effort
International Water Association (IWA)
- ARTICLE: COVID-19 and ‘chasing for water’ – water access in poor urban spaces
- WORKING GROUP: COVID-19 Task Force
- ONLINE DIALOGUE: COVID-19: a water professional’s perspective
- IWA Publishing: journal content free until May 31st
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- ARTICLE: COVID-19 is a deadly reminder that inclusive water supply and sanitation matters for all of us
- INTERVIEW: Fears over handwashing in Africa to stem coronavirus seen as trigger for change
- OPINION: Coronavirus – wake-up call to ensure water and sanitation for all
- ARTICLE: Why nations must prepare for natural disasters amid the current Covid-19 pandemic
- ARTICLE: When climate and Covid-19 collide: Ten steps to prepare South Asia
Pacific Institute
- WEBPAGE: COVID-19 dedicated webpage
- OP-ED: Hand-washing is critical in the fight against coronavirus, but what if you don’t have safe water?
- Water and COVID-19: Risks and Opportunities
- BLOG POST: When California utilities shut off water for the poor, we are all at risk
- BLOG POST: How can the world avoid the spread of future pandemics?
- BLOG POST: Want to help fight COVID-19? List your organization’s work on the water action hub.
- FACT SHEET: Water and the pandemic: reopening buildings after shutdowns: reducing water-related health risks
- BLOG POST: How the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting water demand
- ISSUE BRIEF: Water and the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts on municipal water demand
- ISSUE BRIEF: Water and the COVID-19 pandemic: ensuring access to water as shutoff moratoriums lift
- ISSUE BRIEF: Water and the COVID-19 pandemic: equity dimensions of utility disconnections in the U.S.
- ISSUE BRIEF: Water and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Business Framework for Water & COVID-19: Practical Actions to Contain the Pandemic
Stockholm international Water Institute (SIWI)
- NEWS: You can’t wash your hands without water – how governments are responding to COVID-19
- BLOG POST: Don’t forget the security aspect of the COVID-19 crisis
- NEWS: Make clean water for all a top global priority
- POLICY BRIEF: The key role of water, sanitation and hygiene promotion in the response to COVID-19 in Brazil
WaterAid
- ARTICLE: Frequent handwashing with soap is one of the most effective ways to stop the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
- BLOG: How can we ensure everyone can wash their hands with soap and water, to protect lives from COVID-19?
- BLOG: Putting equality, inclusion and rights at the centre of a COVID-19 water, sanitation and hygiene response
- ARTICLE: Good hygiene saves lives – that’s why we’ve spent 37 years fighting for everyone to be able to practise it. Will you help us respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?
- VIDEO: Why is handwashing so important to stop coronavirus?
- VIDEO: How to wash your hands | the WaterAid guide to handwashing
Women for Water Partnership (WfWP)
- ARTICLE: Local action by women
- Katosi / KWDT intervention on COVID
- WEB PAGE: Women, water & virus
World Resources Institute
- ARTICLE: Combating the coronavirus without clean water
- ARTICLE: Tackling inequality in cities is essential for fighting COVID-19
- ARTICLE: South Asia confronts a double disaster: cyclone and COVID-19
World Water Council
- NEWS ARTICLE: World Water Council provides Marseille soap to Senegalese state and City of Dakar
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