Co-director | Growth Hub
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Stef Smits is a senior programme officer and Co-director of IRC's Growth Hub. He has 20 years of professional experience in water supply and sanitation in over 25 countries in Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and South Asia. His main thematic expertise includes: institutional models for water supply, sustainability and enabling environment, monitoring, costing and financing of services and integrated water resources management.
Stef has led numerous projects on these topics, and published about them. In addition, he has ample management expertise: from consultancy assignments to multi-annual programmes, and units within an organisation. He has worked for a range of clients including bilateral donors, development banks, research funders and NGOs. Stef holds an MSc degree in Irrigation and Water Engineering from Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Describes a prototype workshop organized by Unicef as part of their new basic services programme for Ethiopia. The workshop was held in Samre, Tigray... Read more...
SIWIL is a pipe lifting device that is called after its developers SIbanda Zanamwe and WILlem Harderwijk. It was designed as a more practical and... Read more...
Monitoring the sustainability of new water supplies often relies on indirect indicators, aiming to show that all preconditions for sustained... Read more...
Two tube-well-drilling methodologies, sludging and well-pointing, are being used in the Terai region of Nepal for village water points in difficult... Read more...
Article discusses the differences between planned project outcomes and the percieved project benefits at the level of the communities served. The... Read more...
Between January 1987 and February 1988, 4590 homes of children under five years of age were visited in three areas of Kurunegala district, Sri Lanka... Read more...
A survey of the amounts of water purchased from vendors in the squatter areas of Khartoum, Sudan, formed the basis for an assessment of the price... Read more...
An epidemiological survey carried out in the Dodoma region of Tanzania found that high rates of trachoma infection in pre-school children were... Read more...
