Former Programme Officer| Change hub
Vera is a Master of Arts: Journalism and post graduate in Electronic Information Management (Moscow State University and The Robert Gordon University). In the past 15 years, she has gained experiences in working with both traditional and new media, strategic communications, publications, knowledge and information management, communication technologies and children's issues. Prior to joining IRC, she worked for the Bernard van Leer Foundation in Den Haag (the Netherlands) that works to improve opportunities for children up to age 8 who are growing up in socially and economically difficult circumstances; Save the children – Redd Barna(Uganda) and Commercial Television (STV-Uganda).
Vera was appointed organisational trust person in 2016.
A call to action for ministers of finance, with inspirational case studies and forward-looking sector perspectives. It is part of an initiative by... Read more...
This working paper unpacks what is meant by the enabling environment for finance in WASH and presents real examples of how these bottlenecks are... Read more...
This paper focuses on budget allocations and expenditures by national, state and district authorities for Odisha State and Ganjam District (India). Read more...
Presentations from the CONNECT Finance thematic track of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
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Thursday 29 April at 3 pm London | 4 pm CET, Latin America and the Caribbean | Africa | Europe, English-Spanish-Portuguese interpretation SWA together with GWP, UNICEF and WaterAid are co-convening a webinar series to strengthen partners' knowledge of and capacity to integrate water, sanitation and... Read more...
Advocating for WASH in Healthcare Facilities: A Roundtable Series, taking place on Wednesday 17 February, 3 and 17 March @ 7AM EST, 1PM GMT+1. IRC's Elynn Walter is moderating the first session on WASH in Health Facilities Read more...
Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) Partner Exchange Forum. This virtual forum, organised by The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be on balancing consumer protection and utility financial stability during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will take place on Wednesday... Read more...
This presentation describes how a blend of public and concessional financing is being used to attract larger investments for public water supply... Read more...
A podcast about empowering civil society with transparency tools to aid in the fight against lagging WASH budgets. Read more...
Existing models used for financing water infrastructure development do not seem very applicable to the realities of small towns. Read more...
Finance is a crucial (and unavoidable) building block for ensuring sustainable rural water services. Therefore, the RWSN sustainable services group is organising webinars addressing costing and financing rural water supply which will take place next week on Tuesday 14 and Thursday 16 November. This... Read more...
Less misleading displays of financial data, such as stacked histograms, which separate capital and recurrent expenditure, are preferable to flow... Read more...
The Dutch Water Bank was initially established primarily to finance flood control, but the model is potentially applicable to other aspects of water... Read more...
Positioning our work to champion sustainability and equity, and to catalyse change towards our vision of universal access by 2030. Read more...
The success story of a Dutch financing mechanism for the public sector. Read more...
Whilst the new ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are being finalised, an equally important discussion is going on: how do we finance their achievement? Addis Ababa is hosting a UN Financing for Development conference from 13 to 16 July 2015 on this topic. In preparation for the... Read more...