Co-director | Growth Hub
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Stef Smits is a senior programme officer and Co-director of IRC's Growth Hub. He has 20 years of professional experience in water supply and sanitation in over 25 countries in Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and South Asia. His main thematic expertise includes: institutional models for water supply, sustainability and enabling environment, monitoring, costing and financing of services and integrated water resources management.
Stef has led numerous projects on these topics, and published about them. In addition, he has ample management expertise: from consultancy assignments to multi-annual programmes, and units within an organisation. He has worked for a range of clients including bilateral donors, development banks, research funders and NGOs. Stef holds an MSc degree in Irrigation and Water Engineering from Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
This article examines the perceptions of cleanliness and the role of soap and hand washing in two poor Bangladeshi communities, one rural and one... Read more...
As part of a research project on Alzheimer's disease and aluminium in drinking water, this article discusses chemical considerations relative to... Read more...
This article provides an overview of funding sources available to small public water systems in the United States in order to comply with the Safe... Read more...
Bench- and pilot-scale tests confirmed the effectiveness of the natural polyelectrolytes, chitosan and sodium alginate, in water treatment. Read more...
This article attempts to set out the major issues of the new integrated water resource management (WRM) policy for further debate rather than giving... Read more...
The food and water hygiene in two Liberian communities was studied in a house-to-house diarhhoea survey. The level of contamination with... Read more...
This paper describes an attempt by the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso between 1983 and 1990 to mobilize the residents of peri-urban areas... Read more...
