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.
Systems approaches are ongoing processes which take time and require multiple levels of action, both at local as well as at regional and national... Read more...
Measuring change over time in the relationships and network structure of learning alliances in four separate Ethiopian locations in USAID's... Read more...
In Ethiopia, prioritising access to groundwater, supported by responsive and proactive operation and maintenance, increases rural water supply... Read more...
This report summarises the strengths of the decentralised local systems that deliver services in two locations in Ethiopia, describing key actors,... Read more...
Benchmarks for water services in Mile, Afar and South Ari, SNNPR, and assessments of both the performance of service providers and the performance of... Read more...
Baseline assessment report on rural water service levels in Mile, Afar and South Ari, SNNPR. Read more...
Behaviour change is not sufficient in itself to improve health and livelihoods, nor is construction, improving accountability, training, capacity... Read more...
Using the life-cycle cost approach (LCCA) this study showed the budget gaps for the sustainability of water services. Read more...
A podcast about empowering civil society with transparency tools to aid in the fight against lagging WASH budgets. Read more...
This presentation describes how the NGO Splash uses schools as catalysts to promote city-wide community water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) coverage. Read more...
A discussion on ways to use existing systems to improve scale and sustainability of hygiene promotion efforts. Read more...
Neither rural sustainability checks, nor urban benchmarking frameworks, are entirely suitable for monitoring small town water services. Read more...
This paper presents findings on water and sanitation service levels from 16 small and medium towns in four regions of Ethiopia. Read more...
Political commitment to sanitation can be translated to results on the ground through: prioritisation throughout all government departments and... Read more...
This publication has been produced by IRC as part of its independent monitoring and knowledge management services to the ONEWASH Plus programme. The... Read more...
This learning note includes estimates for capital expenditure and direct and indirect costs. Read more...
The learning note is about an innovative new contracting arrangement that combines infrastructure development and capacity building for town water... Read more...
Data was collected on household income, diarrhoeal disease occurrence, water service provision, and sanitation and hygiene services and practices at... Read more...
This book is an introduction to the theory of water governance and its practical application especially in The Netherlands. Read more...