Freelance writer/journalist
Jenda is currently active as a freelance writer/journalist
"World Water Day is the most important day of the year," said Minister of Infrastructure and Environment Melanie Schultz van Haegen during the Dutch World Water Day event on Friday 20 March 2015 in Amsterdam. "In fact, it is World Water Day every day", she said. Read more...
How do you set up a reliable water supply system when an area is facing ten months of extreme drought every year? How do you make sure that the one thing that matters, your cattle, stay alive? "You start planning for the worst." Read more...
The post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals should include access to water and sanitation in schools, clinics and the work place. This was stated by IRC and Simavi during a networking event on Thursday 4 December at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Read more...
Over minder dan een jaar worden in New York de opvolgers van de Millenniumdoelen vastgesteld door de Verenigde Naties: de Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). IRC en Simavi zetten dit op de kaart tijdens een bijeenkomst op 4 december 2014 in het Mauritshuis. Read more...
Former president of Kenya, HE Mwai Kibaki, officially launched the Millennium Water Alliance-Kenya strategic plan last week in Nairobi and called for efficient and effective water governance. IRC is a partner in the Millennium Water Alliance. Read more...
Every month IRCconsult interviews an expert and highlights fieldwork somewhere around the world. This time: René van Lieshout, senior water and sanitation programme manager at IRC travelling to Kenya. Read more...
"The spreading of Ebola and a range of water and sanitation related diseases can be dramatically reduced by strengthening and promoting hygiene behaviours," says IRC's Africa Regional Programme Manager and Hygiene and Sanitation specialist Alana Potter. Read more...
The room is packed and there is a lot of positive energy in the session on Innovations in Sustainability for Water and Sanitation Services at Stockholm World Water Week. Read more...
Ebola is spreading fast and continues to plague West Africa. One of the countries hardest hit is Sierra Leone. With numbers of infected people rising every day, measures are taken to contain it. Read more...
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene are of critical importance for the people living in camps, but they don't come cheap and many refugees are not going anywhere soon. Read more...
Den Haag, 28 mei 2014 – Op zaterdag 31 mei brengt John A. Kufuor, voormalig president van Ghana, een bezoek aan Nederland om aanwezig te zijn bij de oefeninterland Nederland-Ghana in De Kuip te Rotterdam. Read more...