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.
This book is an introduction to the theory of water governance and its practical application especially in The Netherlands. Read more...
Part V contains the tools from Part III and examples of agreements for collection and disposal, all on a CD-ROM Read more...
Part I is an introduction to the concept and contents of the Guidance Pack and a brief review of some of the key points Read more...
Based both on primary and secondary information about the water sector of Hyderabad, India, this paper looks into the kind of policy changes and... Read more...
This paper is based on comparable cross-sectional studies of household environmental problems in three cities with differing proportions of poor... 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...