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 report focuses on health burdens in the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP), and the environmental problems that contribute... Read more...
The Project Nutrition, Health Education and Environmental Sanitation (NHEES) was begun in 1975 in five States in India, and has been expanded in 1981... Read more...
The guide is designed for a two-week workshop for district-level development agents. It concentrates on the skills necessary to oversee latrine... Read more...
The document has been developed as a complement to WASH Technical Report No. 32, "Facilitator Guide for Conducting a Team Planning Meeting... Read more...
This manual explains how to organise and conduct focus groups, in order to ensure that they run smoothly and that potential users will be able to... Read more...
This bibliography contains references to 185 communication/educational materials related to rural and low-cost water supply and sanitation in India... Read more...
