Ruchika Shiva is the Acting Director of the IRC's South Asia Regional Programme. In her present role she has been actively involved in building IRC’s programme in the Asia region. She has been contributing to and leading programmes and assignments in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India and Nepal with bilateral, multilaterals and other development organisations.
Ruchika has a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi (India). Ruchika has over 19 years of experience in the development sector, with over 10 years focussed on water and sanitation. Prior to this, she worked with Plan International and other implementing organisations on issues related to women and child rights.
Ruchika is interested in strengthening institutions at administrative levels to ensure improved services in communities, with a focus on households from marginalised communities.
This article discusses the environmental circumstances when pit latrines, although they are cheap, simple to operate, and easy to manage, are... Read more...
A WaterAid project in rural Ghana uses two technologies for constructing hand-dug wells: concrete-lined and block-lined. The concrete-lined method... Read more...
Short descriptions with illustrations are given of the following manually operated pumps which are suitable for small-scale irrigation: the rower... Read more...
This article reviews the development of the WHO guidelines for drinking water quality, with special reference to developing countries. Summary data... Read more...
The efficacy of Chlor-floc tablets was evaluated for the removal of seeded pathogenic bacteria (Escherichia coli), coliphages and viruses (poliovirus... Read more...
This paper describes the development of a digital map series of the city of Ibadan in Nigeria. Read more...
This study was undertaken to ascertain the levels of aluminium in surface and ground waters used for water supply in Madras city and also to assess... Read more...