IRC Associate | Senior sanitation specialist
Erick Baetings has worked for more than 25 years in the WASH sector. He has extensive working and living experience in Nepal and Bhutan (14 years), Zambia (4 years) and Lao PDR (4 years). For his current assignments he travels regularly to Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia.
Successful pathways secured uptake by government and had flexible programming. Read more...
Multi-stakeholder engagement is critical for making progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 'Ensure access to water and sanitation for... Read more...
For deciding where to invest, how to sustain and improve water and sanitation services and for understanding which policies and strategies work, both... Read more...
Stool disposal practices have been shown to be associated with childhood diarrhoea. However, efforts to promote improved hygiene behaviour are... Read more...
This article outlines the process and results of an education/communication health intervention funded by WHO and carried out in Santa Maria de Jesus... Read more...
A brief overview is given of the linkages between rural women's work in providing basic needs for their families in a deteriorating environment, and... Read more...
Water shortage was a major reason why handwashing was not practised in a highland village in Guatemala. A water-saving device, the plastic 'tippy tap... Read more...
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the status of the Dracunculiasis Eradication Programme as of March 1993, when less than three years are... Read more...
The article summarizes the findings of an investigation into the health levels of a population of 1285 children under-five which benefited from the... Read more...
The use of observation techniques has been promoted for the study of hygiene practices; however, questions still remain about the validity and... Read more...