Non-food items standard 2: personal hygiene
Each disaster-affected household has access to sufficient soap and other items to ensure personal hygiene, health, dignity and well-being. |
Key indicators (to be read in conjunction with the guidance notes)
Each person has access to 250g of bathing soap per month (see guidance notes 1-3).
Each person has access to 200g of laundry soap per month (see guidance note 1-3).
Women and girls have sanitary materials for menstruation (see guidance note 4).
Infants and children up to two years old have 12 washable nappies or diapers where these are typically used.
Additional items essential for ensuring personal hygiene, dignity and well-being can be accessed (see guidance note 5).
Guidance notes
1. Appropriateness: existing cultural practices and familiar products should be assessed in specifying the items supplied. Care should be taken to avoid specifying products that would not be used due to lack of familiarity or that could be misused (e.g. being mistaken for foodstuffs). Where culturally appropriate or preferred, washing powder can be specified instead of laundry soap or the use of suitable alternatives such as ash or clean sand promoted.
2. Replacement: consideration should be given for consumables to be replaced when necessary.
3. Special needs: additional quantities of bathing and laundry soap should be provided where possible to people with incontinence problems, people with HIV/AIDS and associated diarrhoea, and older people, disabled people or others with impaired mobility.
4. Sanitary protection: women and girls should receive appropriate material for menstruation. It is important that these materials are appropriate and discreet and that women are involved in making decisions about what is provided.
5. Additional items: existing social and cultural practices may require that additional personal hygiene items can be accessed. Subject to availability, these items per person per month could include 75ml/100g of toothpaste; one toothbrush; 250ml of shampoo; 250ml of lotion for infants and children up to two years old; one disposable razor. Per household they could also include one hairbrush and/or comb, and nail clippers
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