Freelance writer/journalist
Jenda is currently active as a freelance writer/journalist
IRC gelooft dat iedereen in de wereld recht heeft op schoon drinkwater en goede sanitaire voorzieningen. Monitoring is het controleren of alles nog goed werkt en waar reparaties nodig zijn. Ikos Melkhior Kosat helpt de regering van Oost-Indonesië om dat te doen. Lees hier zijn verhaal. Read more...
We believe everyone in the world should have running water and proper sanitation. Now and in the future. Monitoring is checking if everything works properly and what needs fixing. Ikos Melkhior Kosat helps the government of East Indonesia to do that. Read his story here. Read more...
Founding a new state. How do you organise and plan for water and sanitation in a country which lacks most revenues, infrastructure or a private sector and is shattered by conflict? South Sudan: the youngest country in the world is balancing between a promising future and fiasco. Read more...
"We went back to where it all started: the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy of the Government of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa," says IRC's Ton Schouten. This week the monitoring book ' From Infrastructure to Services' was launched in Ethiopia. In the coming 4 years, IRC will keep supporting the... Read more...
"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...
2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals make way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An important role in both development agendas is reserved for water, sanitation and hygiene issues that leave much to be desired in many countries. OneWorld dived into the world of... 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...
Next year the Millennium Development Goals will make way for their successors: the Sustainable Development Goals. What does this mean for global development? What should the new targets include? Organisations working in water, sanitation and hygiene closely follow the making of the new agenda. 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...
The issue that was at the heart of the discussion is that good intentions are not enough and premature failure of water infrastructure in rural and small towns in low income countries is a well-known problem to all in the room. But what can be done in practice to avoid waste of investment in... 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...