Programme Officer
Mélanie is a water and sanitation engineer working in the WASH sector since 2002. She worked 5 years in the private sector in hydraulic design and construction followed by 7 years in the humanitarian and development sector. Mélanie has an extensive field experience as WASH programme manager and coordinator mainly in emergency contexts, and was based and worked in various countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
She joined IRC in 2012 as a Programme Officer and has been involved in various research and monitoring initiatives, mainly in the field of sanitation, hygiene and MUS (Multiple Use of water Services). Mélanie is the facilitator of the online life-cycle costing training and is working with UNCHR to adapt the life-cycle cost approach to emergency contexts.
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish
Presentations from the WASH Learning theme 1 - Delivering Safe WASH Services session of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
In order to leave no one behind, decision makers and service providers need to examine common beliefs in measuring access to services. Read more...
This is the final report from the Action Research for Learning programme (2013–2015). Read more...
Emerging lessons from the use of building blocks for sustainable un-sewered urban sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more...
What about looking deep into on-going WASH programmes and analysing their strengths and weaknesses? What about designing innovative ways of measuring the effectiveness of these approaches? And what about testing adjustments to their activities to make the interventions even more effective? Read more...
This paper hopes to stimulate who are interested and directly involved in environmental sanitation programmes. It is divided into case studies from... Read more...
This report aims to provide guidelines for the preliminary design of faecal sludge treatment schemes comprising solids-liquid separation and... Read more...
Since 1993 SANDEC is conducting a field research project on the "Management of Sludges from On-site Sanitation" (SOS). Read more...