Research and policy advisor | Associate | IRC Ethiopia
Abinet Kebede is a specialist in research and project coordination. He has over 10 years of professional experience working as a researcher and project coordinator for various projects in the areas of agriculture, health and nutrition, capacity building and project evaluation. He has expertise in qualitative and quantitative data analysis, report writing, project cycle management, project monitoring and evaluation.
Communal groundwater supplies are likely to remain the main source of improved water supplies for many rural areas in Africa and South Asia for... Read more...
Lessons learned on the development and use of sustainability metrics for systems, service providers, communities and technical assistance providers... Read more...
An introduction to IRC's systems approach, the building blocks for WASH systems and measuring WASH systems strengthening. Read more...
Water is central to the lives of pastoralists in Mille woreda, and water development projects have huge impacts. How these play out for the local community is a complex story. Read more...
Since not everyone can be served by sewerage systems in the near future, septage management is one of available options to achieve sanitation for all... Read more...
This presentation proposes an integrated solution to deal with both solid waste and faecal sludge management in the town of Bogra in Bangladesh. Read more...
This report presents findings of the inception phase of the Economic and Social Research Council's supported research 'Water Security in Ethiopia and... Read more...
In this podcast you hear how the systems approach came about, what the current evidence of its importance is and what the challenges are for its... Read more...
Lessons learned and a framework for understanding public-private collaboration in consumer sanitation markets. Read more...
Lessons learnt from a field trip in Ethiopia. Read more...
District Assemblies (DAs) are not fully exercising their mandates as development authorities, responsible for planning, implementation, coordination... Read more...
You may have heard of the Lord of the Rings, but in Bihar, India, that name is taking on a whole new meaning. I recently joined a field visit to this part of the world to see how cement ring businesses are changing the face of rural sanitation. Read more...
Possessing a non-shared latrine neither guarantees safety to its users nor its categorisation as 'improved'. Instead, the state of the latrine, the... Read more...
The scope and potential role of financial institutions for sanitation financing and possible program interventions to support these institutions with... Read more...
Major barriers to entry for sanitation start-ups in Ghana are the lack of start-up capital; lack of access to affordable banking services (... Read more...
SDG 6 will not be achieved without predictable and dedicated flows from the public sector towards meeting the financing requirements of water... Read more...
Faecal sludge is not waste, says Ton de Wilde in this podcast, it is a resource. Read more...
Aimed at sharing some of the latest experiences and developments in sanitation marketing, the quarterly National Sanitation Marketing Multi-stakeholders Platform meeting was held in September 2017 in collaboration with the USAID Transform WASH Project. Read more...
Countries should place greater priority on leveraging commercial finance into the sector while at the same time bolstering public funds. Read more...
