Research and policy advisor | Associate | IRC Ethiopia
Abinet Kebede is a specialist in research and project coordination. He has over 10 years of professional experience working as a researcher and project coordinator for various projects in the areas of agriculture, health and nutrition, capacity building and project evaluation. He has expertise in qualitative and quantitative data analysis, report writing, project cycle management, project monitoring and evaluation.
In this podcast you hear how the systems approach came about, what the current evidence of its importance is and what the challenges are for its... Read more...
Lessons learned and a framework for understanding public-private collaboration in consumer sanitation markets. Read more...
Lessons learnt from a field trip in Ethiopia. Read more...
District Assemblies (DAs) are not fully exercising their mandates as development authorities, responsible for planning, implementation, coordination... Read more...
You may have heard of the Lord of the Rings, but in Bihar, India, that name is taking on a whole new meaning. I recently joined a field visit to this part of the world to see how cement ring businesses are changing the face of rural sanitation. Read more...
Possessing a non-shared latrine neither guarantees safety to its users nor its categorisation as 'improved'. Instead, the state of the latrine, the... Read more...
The scope and potential role of financial institutions for sanitation financing and possible program interventions to support these institutions with... Read more...
Major barriers to entry for sanitation start-ups in Ghana are the lack of start-up capital; lack of access to affordable banking services (... Read more...
SDG 6 will not be achieved without predictable and dedicated flows from the public sector towards meeting the financing requirements of water... Read more...
Faecal sludge is not waste, says Ton de Wilde in this podcast, it is a resource. Read more...
Aimed at sharing some of the latest experiences and developments in sanitation marketing, the quarterly National Sanitation Marketing Multi-stakeholders Platform meeting was held in September 2017 in collaboration with the USAID Transform WASH Project. Read more...
Countries should place greater priority on leveraging commercial finance into the sector while at the same time bolstering public funds. Read more...
This qualitative research study provides key lessons for different stakeholder groups to improve rural sanitation in India. Read more...
This facilitator's guide is one of the three components of the WASH Governance Training Programme, which aims to help capacity builders, facilitators... Read more...
The evaluation gives an appraisal of the impact of the Dutch development cooperation.budget cuts in 2010 on countries and programmes. One general... Read more...
The story of the SmarterWASH project in Ghana; the achievements, challenges, experiences, lessons learned over the years. Read more...
Spreading the cost of faecal waste removal over a series of monthly payments could make it more affordable for poor households and help kick start... Read more...
The UNICEF Framework for Sustainability Results proved to be useful in identifying sustainability challenges and acting upon them. Read more...
Political commitment to sanitation can be translated to results on the ground through: prioritisation throughout all government departments and... Read more...