Former Senior programme officer | Change hub
René is senior program manager and a WASH generalist with experience as manager of large programmes and in the role of advisor for the water sector. René is by education a sanitary engineer and has 32 years of experience related to development cooperation in water supply, sanitation, and water resource management in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. His expertise ranges from developing urban infrastructure to participatory appraisals with community members; from action research of rural water supply service delivery models to piloting biological wastewater treatment plants. In the period prior to his retirement in 2023 René's time was divided between developing IRC's WASH System strengthening approach further, supporting IRC (country) teams and evaluating water sector programmes for external clients.
This paper describes the application of material flux analysis (MFA) to calculate the water balance for the town of Tunja in Colombia. The... Read more...
This paper describes research on the use of Moringa oleifera seeds as natural coagulants for water treatment (Malawi and Zimbabwe) and for edible oil... Read more...
Thousands of people die or suffer from water and sanitation-related diseases during post-disaster periods. In Bangladesh, the management and... Read more...
Empirical indicators of environmentally sustainable development are increasingly important. They focus policy-making and provide concrete measures of... Read more...
