Health & Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)

RET’s Interventions 

RET has been providing Health and WASH programs since 2011, working on creating healthier environments through access to integrated and quality health services and facilitating access to safe water, sanitation solutions and good hygiene practices, ensuring survival, dignity and disease prevention and care.

RET pays special attention to people in mobility including youth and their families; vulnerable host communities; people with disabilities; and those in remote rural communities. RET’s Health and WASH programs have been implemented according to international standards and existing national protocols, while considering local knowledge and community support mechanisms. RET have incorporated methodologies that are in line with the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards for Humanitarian Response, whose latest update is based on the commitments made at the first World Humanitarian Summit, held in 2016, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other global initiatives.

According to these guidelines, RET’s WASH programs use a combination of approaches, ensuring that assistance is community-based to meet WASH needs effectively and efficiently. RET’s responses and interventions enhance the medium and long-term goals of communities and minimize environmental impact. Coordination, community participation and capacity building are key aspects of our intervention. 

RET implements corrective and preventive maintenance WASH works in schools, health centers and community spaces, namely in the distribution and storage systems, and in the sanitary units and wastewater treatment systems. In addition, RET develops sustainable strategies for the improvement of water quality and hygiene practices. To provide an effective response to the needs of people in mobility, mechanisms are implemented to facilitate access to hygiene practices and housing solutions, in tandem with their protection requirements. 

In the area of Health, our work is focused on strengthening of the existing health systems for essential health care, capacity building of health personnel, facilitating access of the population to essential medicines and medical materials, including information dissemination to prevent communicable diseases.

RET also provides Sexual and Reproductive Health interventions following the principles and obligations declared in the Humanitarian Charter, which include the rights to live in dignity, to protection and security.