Stef Smits is a senior programme officer and Co-director of IRC's Growth Hub. He has 20 years of professional experience in water supply and sanitation in over 25 countries in Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and South Asia. His main thematic expertise includes: institutional models for water supply, sustainability and enabling environment, monitoring, costing and financing of services and integrated water resources management.
Stef has led numerous projects on these topics, and published about them. In addition, he has ample management expertise: from consultancy assignments to multi-annual programmes, and units within an organisation. He has worked for a range of clients including bilateral donors, development banks, research funders and NGOs. Stef holds an MSc degree in Irrigation and Water Engineering from Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
This article attempts to set out the major issues of the new integrated water resource management (WRM) policy for further debate rather than giving... Read more...
A key lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium A.D. Read more...
This paper reviews the World Bank's role in international water affairs. It was initiated to address the concerns expressed by the delegates to an... Read more...