Programme Manager | IRC Ethiopia
Gezahegn Lemecha Boru joined the IRC WASH Ethiopia team in March 2019 as a Monitoring advisor. Since July 2019, he is working as a Systems Strengthening Team Manager. He has over 27 years' work experience as a mineral exploration geologist, Geotechnical Engineer, hydrogeologist and remote sensing and GIS expert. He has worked with government, public, private organisations and the UN in different capacities including senior leadership positions. He has a BSC degree in Geology and an MSC degree in Remote Sensing and GIS, both from Addis Ababa University.
Major projects completed with IRC include supporting district WASH master planning, expenditure tracking, monitoring system strengthening using building blocks, context analysis, government led monitoring, and facilitation of learning alliance platforms.
The Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE) of Ethiopia held a workshop to discuss creating an Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Regulatory Authority. The focus is shifting from construction to governance, with new guidelines and key performance indicators being developed. Rapid urbanisation and poor... Read more...
The 12th annual WASH, WRM, and Energy Multi-Stakeholder Forum in Ethiopia focused on resilience and brought together key sector actors Read more...
South Ari District exemplifies its efforts in strengthening WASH systems to the Joint Technical Review (JTR) mission Read more...
Availability of up-to-date data is deciding the resource allocation in the three Sustainable WASH Programme (SWP) districts of Amhara Region Read more...
Participants found the training to be very helpful in understanding how the systems approach is used in real-world settings and how it can be applied to improve WASH service delivery. Read more...
IRC Ethiopia's contribution to the WASH SDG programme has been assessed in an evaluation workshop Read more...
Many initiatives on integrated water resources only show results in the long run. However, in Abijata Shalla, participants are already seeing improvements in a short time Read more...
The WASH SDG programme employs an integrated approach to ensure safe water supply, improved sanitation services and good hygienic behaviour and practices targeting the hard-to-reach, the poorest of the poor and people living in remote or slum areas. As part of the WASH SDG programme, WASH Alliance... Read more...
Supporting Ethiopian water professionals and students Read more...
IRC's blended learning course on WASH systems strengthening is helping Welthungerhilfe in implementing a project in Ethiopia Read more...
IRC signed a consultancy agreement with Aguaconsult to conduct a WASH systems context analysis of Mena and Seka Chokorsa districts in Jimma Zone of Oromia Region in Ethiopia. Read more...
IRC WASH Ethiopia gave a nine-day Training of Trainers (ToT) to the Ethiopian Water Technology Institute (EWTI) on WASH systems strengthening. Read more...
