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.
Hardcore poor households need to get 100% subsidies but they must also share 100% of operation and maintenance costs of water and sanitation... Read more...
This working paper is one of a series that explains IRC's emerging praxis for working with and strengthening WASH systems. Read more...
The Transform WASH Activity in Ethiopia has significantly contributed to advancing market-based sanitation approaches and promoting gender equality... Read more...
While we see more focus on methane mitigation and increased recognition of sanitation in national climate plans, we all need to face the same way, particularly regarding finance. Read more...
Using real life examples to show how Political Economy Analysis (PEA) can be used in practical ways in WASH system planning and promotion. Read more...
Among Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partners there is lowered confidence especially in managing untreated wastewater and faecal sludge. Non-... Read more...
This toolkit aims to support WaterAid's country strategy and programme development as well as 'everyday' decision making by providing a structured... 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...
The evaluation gives an appraisal of the impact of the Dutch development cooperation.budget cuts in 2010 on countries and programmes. One general... Read more...
Political commitment to sanitation can be translated to results on the ground through: prioritisation throughout all government departments and... Read more...
Sector approaches to combating corruption have gained momentum in recent years, with increased awareness that generic anti-corruption initiatives are... Read more...