Former Senior programme officer | Change hub
René is senior program manager and a WASH generalist with experience as manager of large programmes and in the role of advisor for the water sector. René is by education a sanitary engineer and has 32 years of experience related to development cooperation in water supply, sanitation, and water resource management in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. His expertise ranges from developing urban infrastructure to participatory appraisals with community members; from action research of rural water supply service delivery models to piloting biological wastewater treatment plants. In the period prior to his retirement in 2023 René's time was divided between developing IRC's WASH System strengthening approach further, supporting IRC (country) teams and evaluating water sector programmes for external clients.
Indicators for hand hygiene monitoring in households, schools and health care centres, for policy makers, implementors and citizens. Read more...
This document is a guide to orient UNICEF country staff to support governments to strengthen the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) enabling... Read more...
Although most people acknowledge the importance of learning for improving performance in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, in practice key information and knowledge are too often not (or only partly) used for the planning and implementation of interventions. Read more...
Paper underlining the importance of learning for better performance in the WASH sector and to contribute to the discussion on how this can be... Read more...
A tool developed by UNICEF Mozambique to assess the sustainability of WASH infrastructure. Read more...