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.
In this podcast the three speakers talk about their specific experiences in handwashing, menstrual hygiene, food hygiene and behaviour change. Read more...
Écoutez ce podcast (5 minutes) par Afou Bengali où elle décrit quand l'approche de renforcement des systèmes WASH est pertinente. Read more...
IRC's Dr Angela Huston explains why systems strengthening is relevant and useful for WASH professionals. Read more...
Angela Huston (IRC) explique pourquoi une augmentation des finances publiques est si importante pour atteindre l'ODD 6. Read more...
André Uandela, a life-cycle cost expert from Mozambique, explains how to collect and analyse life-cycle costs. Read more...
Dr Angela Huston (IRC) discusses whether the WASH systems strengthening approach is relevant in all contexts and why can it be useful for WASH system... Read more...
Alana Potter talks about the role of equity in WASH service delivery and WASH systems strengthening. Read more...
In this podcast you hear how the systems approach came about, what the current evidence of its importance is and what the challenges are for its... Read more...
Faecal sludge is not waste, says Ton de Wilde in this podcast, it is a resource. Read more...
This video consists of three films. 1) Letsatsi le eme (=The sun is standing still). 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...