Research Officer | IRC Ethiopia
Betelhem Gebeyehu is working as a Research and Systems Strengthening Officer at IRC WASH in Ethiopia. Betelhem got her bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Then she came to have her MSc in Environmental Sciences (Specialisation in Water Systems and Global Change) at Wageningen University and Research. She concentrated her studies on water quality, water resources management, and systems thinking. She started working with IRC Ethiopia via the Young Expert Programme (YEP) mainly involved in USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership in 2017.
In her professional journey at IRC, Betelhem has been supporting several projects in different capacities focusing on the development of WASH master plans, producing research and learning papers, training and capacity building for different actors, facilitation of leaning alliance platforms and overall systems strengthening.
This article points out that in the area of water resources development and environmental protection, women at present are more often the victims... Read more...
Groundwater in the Caribbean Islands, a major drinking water source, is becoming increasingly polluted. The groundwater quality was such that it... Read more...
This study examines the effect of maternal personal and domestic hygiene on the incidence of diarrhoea in children aged 6-23 months from rural areas... Read more...
Described is the evolution of the schistosomiasis control programme in Burundi since 1985. A single round of selective population chemotherapy was... Read more...
Reprint of an issue of the journal "Focus on Gender" which considers some of the dilemmas of emergency relief operations, and looks at the... Read more...
To consolidate desk research and field studies and to provide guidance on community management of water supply and sanitation systems, IRC in... Read more...