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.
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This article describes two participatory visual exercises which were used to start discussion about hygiene and sanitation. Read more...
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This manual provides ideas for discussion topics when the video is shown in training sessions with extension workers. The end of the manual also has... Read more...
The video depicts the activities of the Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Ohangwena Region, Northern Namibia. Read more...
Sanitation with the People was filmed in October/November 1994 while the project was carrying out a participatory survey of past and present... Read more...
The Women's Coordinating Council (WCC), a voluntary agency consisting of 105 women's voluntary organizations in West Bengal, is promoting awareness... Read more...
This document provides guidelines to PVOs and NGOs for developing water supply and sanitation projects that are environmentally sound. Read more...
This article develops a model of cost and financing strategies for rural and peri-urban water supply and sanitation. Read more...
The objective of this publication is to provide a short, accessible overview of what may be considered 'good practice' in emergency water and... Read more...
This report describes four IEC Workshops held in India from October 1990 to January 1993. The first workshop was held in Rajpur, (Dehra Dun) from... Read more...
The purpose of the workshop was to expose key government managers and decision makers to a broad range of interventions which could be used to combat... Read more...