Country Director | IRC Ethiopia
Lemessa Mekonta is the Country Director for IRC WASH Ethiopia based in Addis Ababa.
He has diversified and hands on experiences in different aspects of water resources, water supplies, and sanitation working for government, private businesses and NGOs in various capacities ranging from expert to managerial level. Key areas of his experiences include program strategy development, partnership facilitation and coordination with different actors, project management, provision of trainings on water supplies, study and design for rural and urban water supplies, urban water utility management, water quality monitoring, leading action research including rural water supply operation and maintenance with appropriate technology identification and use, and private service providers engagement.
Lemessa is a hydrogeologist by background with over 23 years' experience in water and sanitation sector.
A national NGO WATSAN Sector Training Needs Assessment was carried out by NGO FORUM between January-March 1993. This assessment, which focuses on... Read more...
The experience of the Rural Domestic Water Supply and Sanitation Project (RDWSSP) in Western Kenya shows that theatre is a more effective medium than... Read more...
Almost out of necessity, a FINNIDA project in the Western Province of Kenya, turned to women to recruit as hand pump mechanics. Read more...
The present expansion of water improvement programmes in developing countries is hardly adapted to provide rural areas with an adequate supply of... Read more...
This booklet aims to create more widespread understanding of the planet's catchments: how they work, what harms them and how to protect them. Read more...
To understand the roles of specific maternal and domestic hygiene practices in preventing diarrhoea, 611 rural children aged under 5 years in... Read more...
Describes the history of and trends in public-private partnerships in infrastructure improvements in US public utilities, especially water utilities. Read more...
