Arjen is lead for Water Resources and Climate Change and is keen on hydrogeology, passionate about mapping, and eager to share WASH knowledge and facilitate learning. Arjen's background within IRC was as lead researcher for WASHCost Mozambique.
Arjen has twenty years sector experience – including five years as technical adviser South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan) and 13 years private sector experience in Mozambique and Uganda. He has hands-on experience in extensive water resource studies, detailed social surveys, quality assurance and thorough WASH data analysis and visualisation.
His academic background is an MSc in Hydrogeology and he is fluent in English, Dutch, Portuguese, German and has a reasonable command of Spanish. He is Dutch by nationality and currently lives near London with his family.
Based both on primary and secondary information about the water sector of Hyderabad, India, this paper looks into the kind of policy changes and... Read more...
This paper is based on comparable cross-sectional studies of household environmental problems in three cities with differing proportions of poor... Read more...
The decentralization of responsibilities from the state to private enterprises and NGOs has become the focus of recent political debate. Read more...
The new Government of South Africa through its Reconstruction and Development Programme has recognized the link between the provision of safe... Read more...
This desk study examines the implications of the growing private sector participation in urban water supply (UWS) on the administrative capacity of... Read more...
The pressure on limited freshwater resources increases to meet the escalating demands of households, municipalities and industry. Read more...
The Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) has been supporting the residents of Orangi Township (population 900,000), the largest katchi abadi or squatter... Read more...
The scarcity of freshwater is now an important issue in many parts of the world. Read more...
Empirical indicators of environmentally sustainable development are increasingly important. They focus policy-making and provide concrete measures of... Read more...
Part IV contains defenitions of some technical terms and clarifications of the way certain words are used in the Guidance Pack. Read more...