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.
The potential for corruption in water licensing is an important issue. Preventive actions to reduce the risk of corruption are explored. Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning Theme 3 - "Water resource management : finding systemic solutions" session of the All Systems Connect... Read more...
Plenary presentations and sessions from the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
Lessons from research in the REACH programme in Ethiopia about securing water for livelihoods and household use with special attention to gender. Read more...
Updated guidance, including recommended targets, on domestic water supply to ensure beneficial health outcomes. Read more...
How do Sustainable Land Management programmes relate to interventions promoting groundwater utilisation, and how can the benefits of groundwater... Read more...
Whilst climate change represents a significant threat to sustainable drinking-water and sanitation services, through no-regrets actions and using... Read more...
Perceived poor performance of hand pumped boreholes has been a persistent problem in Africa Read more...
This case study highlights how an organisation can identify potential threats to institutional sustainability common in an extremely low resource... Read more...
Top-down efforts are ineffective for connecting low-income urban populations to centralised water, sanitation or electricity services. Bottom up,... Read more...
The objective of this report is to advance the projects and partnerships of Coca-Cola's Global Water Stewardship work to have greater impact and... Read more...
Decision-support tool to aid the identification of potentially appropriate drinking water methods for arsenic- and salt-mitigation in Bangladesh... Read more...
This paper describes how the ASTRA tool can help identify potentially appropriate technical solutions fro the delivery of arsenic and saline-free... Read more...
What is the best technical solution to deal with arsenic-polluted and saline water in Bangladesh? When is it better to treat the water or to choose... Read more...
The focus is on salt water intrusion in coastal groundwater systems, as groundwater is the main resource of drinking water and irrigation water for... Read more...