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.
Bolivia has a long history of building rural water and sanitation systems which focus on technical merits, with little consideration given to... Read more...
This desk study examines the implications of the growing private sector participation in urban water supply (UWS) on the administrative capacity of... Read more...
Part IV contains defenitions of some technical terms and clarifications of the way certain words are used in the Guidance Pack. Read more...
Describes the history of and trends in public-private partnerships in infrastructure improvements in US public utilities, especially water utilities. Read more...
Many cities in low-income countries are facing mounting problems in their solid waste management services because of their explosive population... Read more...
This field note describes the approach adopted by Burkina Faso to finance urban sanitation by stimulating demand for sanitation, and then meet that... Read more...
This report is concerned with the provision of water and sanitation to low-income areas within the Buenos Aires concession, one of the first of the... Read more...