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.
How can the devolution of planning and budgetary processes help communities raise their issues and plan accordingly. Read more...
A roadmap for tracking and analysing district budgets for water and sanitation programmes in Bihar, India. Read more...
A roadmap for tracking and analysing district budgets for water and sanitation programmes in Odisha, India. Read more...
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the lack of access to basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities. What is needed to... Read more...
Comparing of country scores after assessments of WASH systems can be both tricky and attractive. Read more...
This paper gives a first insight into the results of the assessments of the WASH systems done in Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda, using the traffic-light... Read more...
Behaviour change is not sufficient in itself to improve health and livelihoods, nor is construction, improving accountability, training, capacity... Read more...
This review is the first comprehensive evaluation of the External support programs (ESP) literature. It derives a definition of external support... Read more...
This paper proposes a framework of elements that need to be in place for continued handpump functioning, and then turns this into a diagnostic device... Read more...
How the Aquaya Institute selected a system strengthening approach to overcome the sustainability constraints that other water quality monitoring... Read more...
This report presents a theoretical cost-to-serve by Safe Water Enterprises (SWEs) for the estimated 3.8 billion people without safely treated water. Read more...
Ce plan permettra de rallier l'ensemble des forces vives de la commune, mais aussi le gouvernement national et les partenaires extérieurs de manière... Read more...
The strategic master plan for Banfora includes an inventory of the status of water and sanitation service provision and a communal strategy for... Read more...
While household toilets are necessary, they alone are not sufficient for improved sanitation. Read more...
Developing viable business models to provide point-of-use safe water services to communities at the base of the pyramid (BoP). Read more...
This study provides new evidence that WASH access and practices are associated with self-reported reproductive tract infection symptoms in rural... Read more...
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...