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.
Women's participation and the impact on their status was studied in 35 female and mixed-sex irrigation groups dispersed over the country. Read more...
This book gives a multidisciplinary account of the environmental health hazards threatening children and the range of impacts they can have. Read more...
Part III contains criteria, checklists, terms of reference and questionnaire forms that can be used to prepare for private sector participation in... Read more...
Despite a long process of liberalization, institutional reforms in Sri Lanka's health and water sectors have been very limited. Read more...
A key lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium A.D. Read more...
This paper reviews the World Bank's role in international water affairs. It was initiated to address the concerns expressed by the delegates to an... Read more...
This technical paper analyses the use of the adsorption technique for the removal of toxic metals, organics and refractory compounds from wastewater. Read more...
This book explores the power dimensions of participatory development and research. The aim of the book is to connect theory and practice, and to... Read more...