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.
A framework is developed incorporating public participation as a mandatory clause in water supply projects. Read more...
Sustainable groundwater use is more likely in Indian villages if farmers, other village community members and NGOs work together with researchers and... 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...
The Step Draw-Down Pumping Test (SDT) was developed by Jacob to determine aquifer transmissivity and well properties in cases where the standard... Read more...
A review of the risks to health posed by groundwater contamination from on-site sanitation. The study focuses on microbiological contamination... Read more...