Arjen is lead for Water Resources and Climate Change and is keen on hydrogeology, passionate about mapping, and eager to share WASH knowledge and facilitate learning. Arjen's background within IRC was as lead researcher for WASHCost Mozambique.
Arjen has twenty years sector experience – including five years as technical adviser South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan) and 13 years private sector experience in Mozambique and Uganda. He has hands-on experience in extensive water resource studies, detailed social surveys, quality assurance and thorough WASH data analysis and visualisation.
His academic background is an MSc in Hydrogeology and he is fluent in English, Dutch, Portuguese, German and has a reasonable command of Spanish. He is Dutch by nationality and currently lives near London with his family.
WASH system strengthening is climate action and WASH must be a core component of climate financing and adaptation strategies. Read more...
A critical reflection on the use of planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning (PMEL) tools. Read more...
This paper presents the journeys that Agenda for Change members have gone through in progressively embracing systems strengthening approaches in... Read more...
This working paper sets out the thinking behind IRC's use of learning alliances, offers practical guidance on how to adopt the approach and build a... Read more...
This working paper is one of a series that explains IRC's emerging praxis for working with and strengthening WASH systems. Read more...
This paper focuses on budget allocations and expenditures by national, state and district authorities for Odisha State and Ganjam District (India). Read more...
Ensuring that sanitation products and services remain affordable through favorable tax policies for consumers and manufacturers is important for... Read more...
Countries should place greater priority on leveraging commercial finance into the sector while at the same time bolstering public funds. Read more...
Study on aid effectiveness in Honduras underpinning IRC’s approach based on the understanding that achieving universal and sustainable WASH services... Read more...
An account of the Triple-S experience with the the use of Cognitive Edge's SenseMaker® approach to monitor changes in policy, practice and discourse... Read more...
This working paper provides evidence on current practices around funding capital maintenance and the resulting impact on services. Read more...
This Triple-S Working Paper presents the Triple-S Principles Framework and the key concepts behind it. It provides a description of how the Principle... Read more...