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| Title | HCWM - Rapid Assessment Tool (RAT)  |
| Summary | This assessment tool has been created to help get an overall picture of the HCWM situation prevailing within a country at all levels (ministerial down to small HCFs).
It enables to assess management, training, regulatory, technical and financial issues and it’s analysis should help pinpoint critical issues that need to be addressed within the framework of a National Action Plan (NAP).
Prepared by Mark Haltmeier and Frank Bouvet on behalf of the Protection of the Human Environment departments / Water, Sanitation and Health unit at WHO and UNEP/SBC |
| Author | WHO and UNEP/SBC |
| Year | 2004 |
| Nb pages | 34 |
| Language | english |
| Editor | WHO |
| Type of document | guidelines |
| Level(s) | national
large HCFs
medium HCFs
small HCFs
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| Step(s) | minimization
segregation and containerization
intermediate storage
internal transport
central storage
external transport
treatment and final disposal
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| Thematic(s): | regulatory
training
technologies
management
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| Region | All areas |
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