Country Director | IRC Ethiopia
Lemessa Mekonta is the Country Director for IRC WASH Ethiopia based in Addis Ababa.
He has diversified and hands on experiences in different aspects of water resources, water supplies, and sanitation working for government, private businesses and NGOs in various capacities ranging from expert to managerial level. Key areas of his experiences include program strategy development, partnership facilitation and coordination with different actors, project management, provision of trainings on water supplies, study and design for rural and urban water supplies, urban water utility management, water quality monitoring, leading action research including rural water supply operation and maintenance with appropriate technology identification and use, and private service providers engagement.
Lemessa is a hydrogeologist by background with over 23 years' experience in water and sanitation sector.
Presentations from the WASH Learning Theme 2 - "Markets and behaviour change : how people invest and driving to scale" session of the All Systems... Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning theme 1 - Delivering Safe WASH Services session of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
Plenary presentations and sessions from the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
Presentations from the CONNECT Health thematic track of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
This presentation introduces the WASH emergency resilience and peace triple nexus framework, which includes WASH building blocks and draws from... Read more...
Joint presentation Kyla Gregoire, CARE USA/Malawi, Richard Bassono, GRET, Burkina Faso, Lavuun Verstraete, Unicef Ethiopia, Fatim Hélène Traoré,... Read more...
Achievements and key messages from the USAID Transform WASH programme (2017 to 2023) in Ethiopia. Read more...
Achievements and key messages from the USAID Transform WASH programme (2017 to 2023) in Ethiopia. Read more...
Sales for small water enterprise financial viability Read more...
Ministry of Water and Energy (Ethiopia), COWASH, SNV and IRC reflecting on partnership work in Ethiopia Read more...
Institutions are crucial to sustaining behavioural change throughout the entire sanitation value chain: from toilet access to emptying and transport... Read more...
Poster presented at the 2015 UNC water and health conference. Read more...
Presentation by Luuk van Kempen, for the IRC Seminar, The human factor in WASH change processes: drivers for change among staff of WASH sector... Read more...