Girmachew Addisu Lijalem has joined IRC Ethiopia team as a Monitoring and Learning Advisor and Local Facilitator for the Sustainable WASH Program (SWP). He has more than 14 years of experience as instructor at a university, as a hydrologist / engineer at Construction Enterprises, as researcher, as senior irrigation-drainage monitoring specialist and as resident project leader for IWRM projects at a Basin Authority. Girmachew has a B.Sc degree in soil and water engineering and M.Sc degree in Hydraulics engineering from Bahir Dar University.
A comprehensive package of WASH interventions is needed that is tailored to address the local exposure landscape and enteric disease burden. Read more...
No examples of mutual accountability were found in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Peru and Somalia. Where active, multi-stakeholder platforms in the... Read more...
Whilst climate change represents a significant threat to sustainable drinking-water and sanitation services, through no-regrets actions and using... Read more...
This review confirms positive impacts of sanitation on aspects of health, but evidence gaps remain. More research is needed that rigorously describes... Read more...
While global overviews of evidence are useful as a first step, there is a need for evidence related to specific contexts, such as rural or urban... Read more...
WASH for WORMS is a cluster-randomised controlled trial to test the hypothesis that a community-based WASH intervention integrated with periodic mass... Read more...
This study identifies the effectiveness, costs and cost drivers of SODIS, ceramic filters and biosand filters. Read more...
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