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.
Paper written for the Asia regional sanitation and hygiene practition... Read more...
The new Government of South Africa through its Reconstruction and Development Programme has recognized the link between the provision of safe... Read more...
This article describes two participatory visual exercises which were used to start discussion about hygiene and sanitation. 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...
Description of the development of the ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrine or Blair latrine in Zimbabwe where the VIP latrine is a national... Read more...
The guide outlines the type of information and approaches that Healthy Villages managers could provide to their communities. It can be used as the... Read more...