An Assessment of the socio-economic challenges for the provision of WASH services during emergency situation: A Case Study of the Gado-Badzere Refugee Camp-East Cameroon, 2020

A study was carried out in the Gado-Badzere Refugee camp, East region of Cameroon. This project gathered information via a structured questionnaire. this entailed the demographics of refugees, the quality and hygiene of water, the sanitation systems installed in the Camp and the hygiene practices of refugees. This was accompanied with key interviews, field observation, focussed group discussion and secondary data. Both descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyze the data and the findings were compared to international standards.

Date (Creation): 2020-10-28T10:25:00

Presentation form: Digital table

Presentation form: Digital document

Purpose: This study aimed at analyzing the effectiveness of access to WASH services in the refugee Camp. The aim of the questionnaire was to look at the WASH situation in the Gado camp and also how versed the refugees are concerning WASH issues. The focused group discussions help to provide an overview of the social context and key interviews and field observation serve to provide answers to the socio-economic challenges that hampers the provision of WASH services in the camp

Credit: We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of AHA staff in accompanying me and facilitating interviews and discussion

Author

Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (PAUWES) - Assouah Essoubat Chanel Lynne ( )

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

water quality
sanitation
hygiene
refugee
drinking water

Theme

water

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Cameroon

Place

East Region
Garoua Boulai

Use constraints: License

Other constraints: Data is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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Citation:

Lynne, C. (2020): An Assessment of the socio-economic challenges for the provision of WASH services during emergency situation: A Case Study of the Gado-Badzere Refugee Camp-East Cameroon, 2020

https://dataportal.pauwes.dz/#/metadata/0c03215d-0572-4121-9f5e-336e20aa59fb

Metadata language: Français

Metadata language: English

Topic category

Health
Society

Begin date: 2020-07-22

End date: 2020-08-03

Supplemental Information: Question groups (Questionnaire-Englisch) are:

General Information and Demographics

Water Collection and Storage

Drinking Water Hygiene

Hygiene

Sanitation

Observation questions

Result table variables (French)

Numero

Maison

Homme

Femme

Enfants

Qté d'eau/J

Maladies?

Latrine?

Point de lavage des mains?

Stockage déchets?

Traitement d'eau?

Source d'eau