After a ten year career at IRC, covering various leadership functions and being member of the IRC Management Team, Erma established herself as an independent consultant in 2015. Erma continues her collaboration with IRC as an associate consultant.
Erma strongly believes in country leadership - national governments leading the development of a common vision, policy priorities and targets for the sector; National governments coordinating and directing all actors and interventions towards achievement of the commonly agreed vision and targets, monitoring progress and facilitating learning processes to adjust sector policies and practices when needed. Without national governments taking leadership and being backed by a strong sector system, achievement of WASH services for all and forever will remain an utopia and resources will remain being wasted.
Working with governments, at national and decentralised level, in facilitating sector-broad and multi-actor change processes towards strengthened sector capacities for sustained WASH service delivery, is Erma's passion.
Erma thinks that championing knowledge development, innovation and policy influencing for country- leadership is an exciting challenge. This gives her an excellent opportunity to capatalise on both her passion and on a solid professional background anchored in her work for a diversity of employers (national governments, bi-lateral donor and multi-lateral agencies) in different parts of the world.
Después de una carrera de diez años en el IRC, Erma se estableció como un consultor independiente a partir de 2015. Erma continúa su colaboración con IRC como consultor asociado.
Erma Uytewaal es una profesional internacional altamente respetada en el sector del agua potable y saneamiento, particularmente en las áreas de asesoramiento en la formulación e implementación de políticas, desarrollo de estrategias y desarrollo institucional y organizacional.
Ella es una ferviente defensora de la visión de IRC que propugna pasar de intervenciones de corto plazo hacia la definición e implementación de políticas sectoriales que posibiliten la prestación de servicios sostenibles en el largo plazo. Ella cree que el liderazgo de los gobiernos es esencial y es el único camino hacia el cambio en el sector para lograr que los sistemas de agua y saneamiento presten servicios para que todos, en todas partes y siempre puedan disfrutar de su derecho humano al agua potable y al saneamiento.
Erma sabe cómo dirigir el cambio institucional y organizacional. Con perseverancia, trabajo duro y una actitud positiva facilita el diálogo, la negociación y la coordinación de programas y procesos y complejos con la participación de múltiples actores.
En su trabajo es pragmática, motiva la innovación y se enfoca en los resultados. En sus interacciones es de mente abierta y directa. Emprendedora, responsable, pero sobre todo, profesional.
Erma puede visualizar e implementar acciones de una forma integral: abarcando la política y la práctica, las habilidades técnicas y sociales. Su formación y experiencia incluye trabajos previos en varias regiones del mundo incluyendo con las Naciones Unidas, organizaciones de cooperación bilaterales, gobiernos nacionales y gobiernos locales y ONGs, trabajando en todos los niveles de interacción (personal, organizacional e institucional).
Increasing repair and maintenance funds leads to higher borehole functionality and water access rates in the drought-prone regions of Turkana, Kenya... Read more...
Comparing water utilities in Kenya, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and the United States reveals a gap between the full costs of service delivery and budgets of... Read more...
This learning note summarises the findings of USAID Transform WASH's activities to pilot smart and targeted sanitation subsidies in line with... Read more...
This learning note describes and analyses the four business models elaborated by USAID Transform WASH, which have been applied over the last six... Read more...
Existing models used for financing water infrastructure development do not seem very applicable to the realities of small towns. Read more...
Innovative mechanisms for the financing of capital maintenance of piped systems in Ghana may not necessarily fix the problems of poor service... Read more...
Burkina Faso was unable to generate full funding for its previous national programme to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), falling... Read more...
This working paper reviews the institutional setup and financial flows for water supply and sanitation in the commune of Houndé, Burkina Faso. Read more...
This learning note includes estimates for capital expenditure and direct and indirect costs. Read more...
The Conference Financing for Development (13 – 16 July 2015) will make a strong call on the importance of increased domestic public finance towards funding the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more...
The idea for this study emerged during regular bilateral dialogues between Sida and ICRC as a constructive way of improving the ICRC's reporting and... Read more...
3rd Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High Level Meeting (HLM) to be held Friday 11 April 2014. Read more...
Progress has been made in recent years with implementing the aid effectiveness framework. Various studies show that the volume of development... Read more...
Although aid effectiveness in the WASH sector has improved in recent years, vigorous steps are needed to counter measures that can jeopardise... Read more...