Stef Smits is a senior programme officer and Co-director of IRC's Growth Hub. He has 20 years of professional experience in water supply and sanitation in over 25 countries in Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and South Asia. His main thematic expertise includes: institutional models for water supply, sustainability and enabling environment, monitoring, costing and financing of services and integrated water resources management.
Stef has led numerous projects on these topics, and published about them. In addition, he has ample management expertise: from consultancy assignments to multi-annual programmes, and units within an organisation. He has worked for a range of clients including bilateral donors, development banks, research funders and NGOs. Stef holds an MSc degree in Irrigation and Water Engineering from Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Two letters in reaction to the article "Making a start with district health libraries" by Materia et al in World Health Forum, vol. 15, no. Read more...
Zimbabwe's water pollution problems, caused by mining, industry, ordinary farming, and agricultural-product processing, have not yet reached the... Read more...
Accepting the necessity for irrigation in areas where there is insufficient rainfall to sustain agricultural production and admitting the negative... Read more...
SIWIL is a pipe lifting device that is called after its developers SIbanda Zanamwe and WILlem Harderwijk. It was designed as a more practical and... Read more...
Monitoring the sustainability of new water supplies often relies on indirect indicators, aiming to show that all preconditions for sustained... Read more...
Article discusses the differences between planned project outcomes and the percieved project benefits at the level of the communities served. The... Read more...
Between January 1987 and February 1988, 4590 homes of children under five years of age were visited in three areas of Kurunegala district, Sri Lanka... Read more...