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.
Social and technical diversity in urban waste and sanitation services is not the problem but rather the opening to tailor-made solutions and... Read more...
Adaptation of the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) questionnaire for sanitation to the situation of Mobile Desludging in Zimbabwe. Read more...
This study examines eight initiatives that are using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to monitor and report on water supply services... Read more...
Communal wealth is one of the most important factors affecting rural water services, and household connections are the only technology which can... Read more...
For Uganda the main recommendations are to widen the scope of the Service Delivery Approach (SDA) from simple rural water supplies to piped supplies... Read more...
Triple-S has successfully promoted sustainability and the Service Delivery Approach (SDA) at the international level and in target countries. The... Read more...
Providing solutions for the safe and commercially viable collection and composting of faecal sludge for use in agriculture and horticulture in... Read more...
The UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council formally recognised the human right to water and sanitation in 2010. This guidance provides... Read more...
This report presents results of the baseline assessment of the status of service levels, service providers and support functions, in East Gonja... Read more...
What is needed to find out whether a combination of centralised and decentralised systems generates more sustainable and resilient urban water... Read more...
While the importance of hygiene is increasingly being recognized, far less consideration has been given to the role of the complete WASH package in... Read more...
Sustainable groundwater use is more likely in Indian villages if farmers, other village community members and NGOs work together with researchers and... Read more...
Increasing latrine coverage does not by itself reduce exposure to faecal pathogens and prevent disease. Read more...