Regional WASH Officer | IRC Uganda
Mary Ayoreka Concepta is the Regional WASH Officer of IRC Uganda. She is based at IRC’s office in Fort Portal City. Mary Concepta holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health Science from Makerere University - School of Public Health and is completing a Master of Public Health at the University of Manchester.
She has previously worked at Nansana Municipal Council and AMREF Health Africa and has 3 years’ experience in implementing and managing Environmental Health projects including Community Based Research, WASH integrated with communicable disease prevention and control, health and nutrition education and other public health support services.
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The addition of cystine to H2S strips for bacteriological water tests was found to reduce the time required for assessing contamination and to... Read more...
Organic group parameters, adsorbable (AOX) and purgeable (POX) organic halogen, total (TOC) and non purgeable (NPOC) organic carbon were studied in... Read more...
Development practitioners often have relied solely on technology and education imposed from the outside, rather than (a) assessing existing cultural... Read more...
Filtration through roughing gravity filters at low filtration rates between 0.5 and 2 m/h is able to produce water with low particulate... Read more...
This paper reviews the available information about the efficiency and application of the traditional domestic water purification method employing... Read more...
A mathematical model which simulates the performance characteristics of reciprocating handpumps is presented. The model is based on basic fluid-... Read more...
Costs associated with community management of water supply and sanitation systems need to be defined at an early stage. Read more...
High levels of arsenic in tubewell drinking-water in West Bengal, India, have been linked to arsenical dermatosis and skin cancer. Read more...