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.
Comparing water utilities in Kenya, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and the United States reveals a gap between the full costs of service delivery and budgets of... Read more...
Briefing note describing the life-cycle costs approach and why it was developed. Read more...
The purpose of this review is to identify successes, issues, and problems of World Bank supported low-cost on-site sanitation projects and explore... Read more...
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 article develops a model of cost and financing strategies for rural and peri-urban water supply and sanitation. Read more...
The Economic Development Institute Workshop of 1990 had as its emphasis the plight of the urban poor, and the problems of enforcement of their basic... Read more...
This book is written for engineers, planners and architects who are involved with the provision of new or upgraded housing for the urban poor in the... Read more...
Three large Igbo villages in the Nsukka district of Anambra State in Nigeria were studied with respect to the improvement of water supply. During the... Read more...
This report examines the issues related to the operation and maintenance (O&M) and cost recovery in rural water supply and sanitation programmes... Read more...