Stef Smits is a senior programme officer and Co-director of IRC's Growth Hub. He has 20 years of professional experience in water supply and sanitation in over 25 countries in Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and South Asia. His main thematic expertise includes: institutional models for water supply, sustainability and enabling environment, monitoring, costing and financing of services and integrated water resources management.
Stef has led numerous projects on these topics, and published about them. In addition, he has ample management expertise: from consultancy assignments to multi-annual programmes, and units within an organisation. He has worked for a range of clients including bilateral donors, development banks, research funders and NGOs. Stef holds an MSc degree in Irrigation and Water Engineering from Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
There is a lack of documentation and evidence around the key building blocks of WASH systems, covering planning, monitoring and learning, and sector... Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning Theme 3 - "Water resource management : finding systemic solutions" session of the All Systems Connect... Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning Theme 5 - Systems change and collective action session of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
How UNICEF aims to refine and improve WASH knowledge management by systematically basing its actions on the best available evidence. Read more...
This paper examines the status, role and scope of knowledge management and networking in accelerating sanitation achievements in India and advocates... Read more...
This Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) discusses the roles of people, processes, technology and strategy in knowledge management (KM), identifies... Read more...
Knowledge management in development and knowledge societies in developing countries. Read more...
The revised guidelines concentrate on the basic tasks needed to set up and operate a small documentation centre at the local level. Read more...
This book explores what the new approach to aid, based on knowledge means in both theory and practice. Read more...
This book documents the successful use of information and communication technology (ICT) in rural development. Read more...
On 20 March 2000 the first meeting of the Special Interest Group on Water Information, organised by the International Federation for Information and... Read more...