Marieke is a WASH expert with over 18 years of experience in the sector. She has a special interest in small town WASH, participatory strategic planning processes and evidence-based decision making in WASH.
After graduating as an Irrigation and Water Engineer from Wageningen University, Marieke joined IRC as a Junior Professional Officer (JPO) in 2003. As JPO she was stationed with NGO Forum (Bangladesh) and with TREND Group (Ghana). In 2006, she joined the IRC team in the Netherlands.
Marieke has led and participated in action-research studies in Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe on issues like monitoring sustainable WASH service provision, small town water supply, Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM), multiple-use water services, and cost recovery and financing.
Marieke has experience in working closely with ministries (e.g. the Ministry of Water Resources, Irrigation and electricity in Ethiopia) and government agencies (e.g. Community Water and Sanitation Agency in Ghana) in identifying and addressing sector challenges. She has supported knowledge management and sector learning processes in various contexts and countries (e.g. support to the establishment and development of Learning Alliance Platforms in Ghana and Ethiopia and the Resource Centre Network Ghana).
Marieke is supporting the Accountability and Adaptation team, responsible for monitoring, with special emphasis on monitoring service level and financial indicators. She is also supporting various action research projects, with special focus on monitoring and sustainability issues. She is leading the development of a District WASH Master Planning Facility.
Achieving the sustainable development goal for water and sanitation is hard to imagine. The first step is to work out the steps needed to get there. Read more...
While a high proportion of people In Ethiopian have access to improved water and sanitation services, only a small minority receive services that... Read more...
Presentations from the CONNECT Social Justice thematic track of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
The WASH Systems Academy has launched a new specialist course on " District planning for sustainable water and sanitation service s" Read more...
Les sources de données sont nécessaires pour fournir des preuves. Comment les données peuvent-elles être utilisées pour la planification et la... Read more...
Data sources are necessary to provide evidence. How can data be used for planning and accountability? Read more...
Que faut-il faire pour aller au-delà de la cartographie des installations WASH et utiliser réellement les données pour la prise de décision et la... Read more...
What does it take to successfully go beyond mapping WASH facilities to actually using data for national-level decision making and accountability? Why... Read more...
Ministry of Water and Energy (Ethiopia), COWASH, SNV and IRC reflecting on partnership work in Ethiopia Read more...
Testing approaches to strengthen the sustainability and performance of WASH service delivery systems. Read more...
Harmonizing institutionalized monitoring, national benchmarks, improving the data culture and acting upon monitoring results will be essential in... Read more...
Some 50 representatives from towns and regional bureaus participated in the small-town WASH symposium on 3 December at the GetFam hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They were joined online by some 30 stakeholders from national and international level during the morning session, focussed on... Read more...
Measuring change over time in the relationships and network structure of learning alliances in four separate Ethiopian locations in USAID's... Read more...
In Ethiopia, prioritising access to groundwater, supported by responsive and proactive operation and maintenance, increases rural water supply... Read more...
During the Thursday morning monitoring and learning session at IRC's All systems go! participants discussed factors than enable or hamper use of monitoring data in evidence-based decision making. Read more...
Management of WASH systems in Rural Communities: citizens can make a change. Read more...
This report reviews the global progress made towards achieving SDG 6. It builds on the latest data available for the 11 SDG 6 global indicators. Read more...