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.
Presentations from the WASH Learning Theme 3 - "Water resource management : finding systemic solutions" session of the All Systems Connect... Read more...
These outputs of the peer-to-peer learning community share specific experiences and knowledge on WASH and climate change with the aim to strengthen... Read more...
Achieving universal access to sustainable sanitation for a clean, healthy and productive urban environment by 2040 through active participation of... Read more...
Achieving a healthy tourism town with universal access to sustainable sanitation and an improved community livelihood for all by 2040 through... Read more...
Successful sanitation approaches were characterized by their adaptation to the local context, community participation, built-in mechanisms that... Read more...
Emerging lessons from the use of building blocks for sustainable un-sewered urban sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more...
Between 2007 and 2011, IRC, SNV and NETWAS Uganda have facilitated learning processes at district and sub county levels. Read more...
This summary document presents the learning process of LeaPPS and its scaling up to other districts. Read more...