Research Officer | IRC Ethiopia
Betelhem Gebeyehu is working as a Research and Systems Strengthening Officer at IRC WASH in Ethiopia. Betelhem got her bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Then she came to have her MSc in Environmental Sciences (Specialisation in Water Systems and Global Change) at Wageningen University and Research. She concentrated her studies on water quality, water resources management, and systems thinking. She started working with IRC Ethiopia via the Young Expert Programme (YEP) mainly involved in USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership in 2017.
In her professional journey at IRC, Betelhem has been supporting several projects in different capacities focusing on the development of WASH master plans, producing research and learning papers, training and capacity building for different actors, facilitation of leaning alliance platforms and overall systems strengthening.
This article examines participatory evaluations which teams of three to eight people carried out in five focus communities in Sindhupalchok and... Read more...
External Support Agencies each choosing different hand pumps for their projects can lead to great difficulties for Village Level Operation and... Read more...
Short descriptions with illustrations are given of the following manually operated pumps which are suitable for small-scale irrigation: the rower... Read more...
This article points out that in the area of water resources development and environmental protection, women at present are more often the victims... Read more...
