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.
This publication is designed as a source book for all who promote health and development at community level. Read more...
This handbook is concerned with improving the financial management of water and sanitation services to enable them to function reliably and... Read more...
This paper focuses on potential guidelines for economic appraisal of projects in the water supply sector. The first section of the paper summarises... Read more...
Aiming at financiers, planners and managers of water resources development projects this book advocates the need to make health concerns a central... Read more...
This report represents an attempt to bring together information on rapid (and inexpensive) methods of collecting and analyzing data on health... Read more...
This report tries to identify capital projects in the water and sanitation sector, and suggests possible uses for a special appropriation of US$ 650... Read more...
