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 guide for implementing WASH in schools initiatives, based on a compilation of best practices in WASH from 15 prize winning schools in Odisha state... Read more...
A systems approach requires us to know the importance of political buy-in and strong leadership. Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning theme 1 - Delivering Safe WASH Services session of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
Recommendations for hand hygiene in public places and institutions; hand hygiene in the local governance process; hand hygiene promotion strategy;... Read more...
A framework is developed incorporating public participation as a mandatory clause in water supply projects. Read more...
Ten years after a community-led total sanitation campaign, intervention households continued to have higher rates of ever owning a latrine but... Read more...
This paper addresses capacity building challenges for urban sanitation in India, with specific focus on Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM). Read more...
This presentation describes how the NGO Splash uses schools as catalysts to promote city-wide community water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) coverage. Read more...
A discussion on ways to use existing systems to improve scale and sustainability of hygiene promotion efforts. Read more...
Interventions that ensure women have access to private facilities with water for Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) and that educate women about... Read more...
Political commitment to sanitation can be translated to results on the ground through: prioritisation throughout all government departments and... Read more...
Business models and breakthrough approaches to solve India's rural sanitation challenges. Read more...
This qualitative research study aims to understand perceptions, barriers, and motivators for improved sanitation behaviour in rural India. Read more...
This document presents the case of the NGO Gram Vikas in Odisha, that has been developing and supporting community-managed rural water supplies... Read more...
This note presents the approach of the NGO, Vasudha Vikas Sansthan, in Madhya Pradesh in partnership with the State's Public Health Engineering... Read more...
This case study presents the case of the World Bank assisted Jal Nirmal Project in Karnataka. Read more...
In this document we capture the inputs that contributed in improving water supply to households and an assessment of the costs incurred in this... Read more...
This document captures the inputs that contributed to improving water supply to households and an assessment of cost by the Public Health and... Read more...
The diversion of focus from water towards sanitation, comes at the cost of cutting down allocations in rural water or 'adjusting' funds from one... Read more...
This case study analyses the support given by the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Government of Chhattisgarh, to community service... Read more...