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.
The efficacy of Chlor-floc tablets was evaluated for the removal of seeded pathogenic bacteria (Escherichia coli), coliphages and viruses (poliovirus... Read more...
This paper describes the development of a digital map series of the city of Ibadan in Nigeria. Read more...
The emergence of environmental consciousness in South Africa can be seen as a relatively recent phenomenon that has, in part, been facilitated by an... Read more...
Groundwater in the Caribbean Islands, a major drinking water source, is becoming increasingly polluted. The groundwater quality was such that it... Read more...
Many public water systems in the United States are faced with having to invest in plants and equipment to monitor and treat their drinking water in... Read more...
This study examines the effect of maternal personal and domestic hygiene on the incidence of diarrhoea in children aged 6-23 months from rural areas... Read more...
The authors describe a piped water supply programme in 44 small towns in West-Java, Indonesia. Read more...
Described is the evolution of the schistosomiasis control programme in Burundi since 1985. A single round of selective population chemotherapy was... Read more...
The optimal values of coagulation parameters, coagulant dosage and pH are influenced by the pretreatment process preceding coagulation and the solid-... Read more...
