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.
A 1992 study of 22 public primary schools in Madras, India, indicates that staff and children have a useful role to play in the promotion of improved... Read more...
Accepting the necessity for irrigation in areas where there is insufficient rainfall to sustain agricultural production and admitting the negative... Read more...
The Learning-Process Projects on Water Supply and Sanitation were introduced by CINARA and EMCALI in Cali, Colombia, in 1992. Read more...
The influx of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh constituted a major crisis, forcing drastic measures to improve water supplies in various... Read more...
During the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, donors and governments wanted to build new water schemes that would serve the... Read more...
The performance of the UNICEF sand-charcoal-sand upward flow filter was evaluated using a laboratory test filter of similar specifications. The... Read more...
The relationship between substrata characteristics and the occurence of iron and manganese in groundwater was established in a test site in Pura town... Read more...
The factors affecting the initial rate of some organic compounds onto activated date pits, have been investigated. Phenol, aniline, the dyes... Read more...