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.
In this document UNDP proposes its water strategy for the future to be one of: "capacity building through and with governments and civil society... Read more...
Agenda 21 and the Dublin Principles put the concept of water as an economic good on the global agenda, and they have received wide acceptance by the... Read more...
This paper challenges the belief that the total cost of services is too high for the poor to pay arguing that good management, in particular... Read more...
This paper traces the history of legal reforms which led to the present institutional environment in Chile. Read more...
The feasibility study described in this report was conducted to test a contingent valuation methodology for assessing consumer demand for sewer... Read more...
This paper aims to provide an overview of the principles that should underlay private sector participation in the water and sanitation sub-sector to... Read more...
The topic of this paper is transfer of responsibility for water distribution services from a central governmental agency to local government... Read more...
This document reports the findings from Phase 1 (May - August 1992) of an Overseas Development Administration funded project concerning on-plot... Read more...