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.
How CSOs in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and elsewhere have collaborated to understand funding flows and key moments for budget decision-making, and... Read more...
This concept note provides an action plan for cost recovery in the Indian water sector based on an analysis of the existing institutional... Read more...
This concept note proposes a phase-wise approach to cost recovery in the Indian water sector starting with a focus on blended finance through an... Read more...
A 1995 Pacific Institute report, California Water 2020: A Sustainable Vision, offered compelling support for the argument that alternative approaches... Read more...
In response to questions posed by some irrigation specialists concerning the importance of organizing water users as (an essential) part of a cost... Read more...
This article attempts to set out the major issues of the new integrated water resource management (WRM) policy for further debate rather than giving... Read more...