Juste is an expert in the governance of water, sanitation and hygiene services. He has two decades of professional experience in West Africa, particularly in Francophone countries. He is currently the director of IRC Burkina Faso and the director of IRC's regional programme in Africa.
Juste's ambition is to transform the water, sanitation and hygiene sector from inefficient systems at regional, national and local levels into strong government-led systems capable of delivering universal and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services in poor countries by 2030 (SDG6.)
He focuses on building or strengthening governance systems at both local and central government and regional intergovernmental levels. His work involves generating, testing and advising on governance solutions for key stakeholders.
An approach is developed to assess WASH risks in marginal populations that are poorly understood and served through conventional approaches. Read more...
This report summarises the strengths of the decentralised local systems that deliver services in two locations in Ethiopia, describing key actors,... Read more...
A call for commitment, transformative thinking, engagement, integration and disaggregated data production. Read more...
Approximately one in four handpumps in sub-Saharan Africa are non-functional at any point in time, which in 2015 was roughly equivalent to 175,000... Read more...
The paper provides background on the concept of complex systems, its applicability to WASH, and some proposed approaches for practitioners to use... Read more...
This paper summarises the different system strengthening initiatives and makes recommendations for joint learning and collaboration. Read more...
In the Hai and Siha districts of Tanzania actors not only acknowledge, but actively harness informality to provide access to water to rural... Read more...
Neither rural sustainability checks, nor urban benchmarking frameworks, are entirely suitable for monitoring small town water services. Read more...
As freshwater ecosystems face increasing pressure, landscape approaches are key to water security and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH... Read more...
This case study highlights how an organisation can identify potential threats to institutional sustainability common in an extremely low resource... Read more...
This case study describes barriers to sustainability and WaterAid's approaches to addressing them in Nicaragua.. Read more...
Strong dependencies were found between functionality and system type and administrative unit (e.g., district). Read more...
This paper presents findings on water and sanitation service levels from 16 small and medium towns in four regions of Ethiopia. Read more...
This presentation presents lessons learned from UNICEF's use of sustainability checks in their water and sanitation programmes in East and West... Read more...
Data was collected on household income, diarrhoeal disease occurrence, water service provision, and sanitation and hygiene services and practices at... Read more...
The African water sector needs qualified staff in all disciplines, not just engineering. Read more...