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.
This source book explores the capacity needed by local government to develop poverty-focused public-private partnership (PPP) in service delivery. It... Read more...
A 1995 Pacific Institute report, California Water 2020: A Sustainable Vision, offered compelling support for the argument that alternative approaches... Read more...
Despite a long process of liberalization, institutional reforms in Sri Lanka's health and water sectors have been very limited. Read more...
This paper describes an attempt by the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso between 1983 and 1990 to mobilize the residents of peri-urban areas... Read more...
The Benin Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project was a joint effort of USAID, the government of the Republic of Benin, UNICEF and the Peace Corps. Read more...