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.
This article presents comments on "Financing water supply and sanitation under Agenda 21" by Briscoe and Garn (B&G). B&G argue that... Read more...
This paper explores the interactions of small wastewater treatment plants within an urban drainage system. It is noted that the characteristics of... Read more...
Health risks associated with the utilization of wastewater for fish production were studied by investigating the possible incorporation of pathogenic... Read more...
This paper studies approaches to the standardization of institution names in the framework of CEFDA (Common Exchange Format for Development Activity... Read more...
This field note describes the approach adopted by Burkina Faso to finance urban sanitation by stimulating demand for sanitation, and then meet that... Read more...