Research Officer | IRC Ethiopia
Betelhem Gebeyehu is working as a Research and Systems Strengthening Officer at IRC WASH in Ethiopia. Betelhem got her bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Then she came to have her MSc in Environmental Sciences (Specialisation in Water Systems and Global Change) at Wageningen University and Research. She concentrated her studies on water quality, water resources management, and systems thinking. She started working with IRC Ethiopia via the Young Expert Programme (YEP) mainly involved in USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership in 2017.
In her professional journey at IRC, Betelhem has been supporting several projects in different capacities focusing on the development of WASH master plans, producing research and learning papers, training and capacity building for different actors, facilitation of leaning alliance platforms and overall systems strengthening.
The publication addresses the major issues relating to financing for the water sector, including the implications of the MDGs and the financing gap. Read more...
Despite the increased attention international organizations now pay to water supply and sanitation, the overall water supply situation in many... Read more...
A synthesis of the work done at the international seminar in Paris in Dec 2000 that was part of an on-going set of initiatives relating to private... Read more...
The Handpump Sustainability e-conference was held in November and December 2001 as part of the research project Guidelines for Sustainable Handpump... Read more...
