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 report provides an evaluation of the transfer of the Management for Sustainability course, designed by the IRC International Water and... Read more...
Following a sampling and analysis programme carried out in 1996, in May 1999, Greenpeace International carried out a further programme at industrial... Read more...
This is the second edition of a World Health Organization (WHO) handbook, commonly known as "the Blue Book", which is designed to be a source of... Read more...
This study provides an evaluation of the technical quality of 18 rural water supply and 4 latrine projects undertaken by non-governmental... Read more...
Agenda 21 and the Dublin Principles put the concept of water as an economic good on the global agenda, and they have received wide acceptance by the... Read more...
PROSANEAR is the Portuguese acronym for the Water and Sanitation Program for Low-Income Urban Population. This paper describes the PROSANEAR pilot... Read more...
This document presents the results of a literature review on the application of the Strategic Sanitation Approach (SSA) in urban areas. Read more...