Research Officer | IRC Ethiopia
Betelhem Gebeyehu is working as a Research and Systems Strengthening Officer at IRC WASH in Ethiopia. Betelhem got her bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Then she came to have her MSc in Environmental Sciences (Specialisation in Water Systems and Global Change) at Wageningen University and Research. She concentrated her studies on water quality, water resources management, and systems thinking. She started working with IRC Ethiopia via the Young Expert Programme (YEP) mainly involved in USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership in 2017.
In her professional journey at IRC, Betelhem has been supporting several projects in different capacities focusing on the development of WASH master plans, producing research and learning papers, training and capacity building for different actors, facilitation of leaning alliance platforms and overall systems strengthening.
External Support Agencies each choosing different hand pumps for their projects can lead to great difficulties for Village Level Operation and... Read more...
Short descriptions with illustrations are given of the following manually operated pumps which are suitable for small-scale irrigation: the rower... Read more...
This article points out that in the area of water resources development and environmental protection, women at present are more often the victims... Read more...
The efficacy of Chlor-floc tablets was evaluated for the removal of seeded pathogenic bacteria (Escherichia coli), coliphages and viruses (poliovirus... Read more...
This paper describes the development of a digital map series of the city of Ibadan in Nigeria. Read more...
The emergence of environmental consciousness in South Africa can be seen as a relatively recent phenomenon that has, in part, been facilitated by an... Read more...
Groundwater in the Caribbean Islands, a major drinking water source, is becoming increasingly polluted. The groundwater quality was such that it... Read more...
Many public water systems in the United States are faced with having to invest in plants and equipment to monitor and treat their drinking water in... Read more...
