Director | Asia Regional Programme
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Ruchika Shiva is the Acting Director of the IRC's South Asia Regional Programme. In her present role she has been actively involved in building IRC’s programme in the Asia region. She has been contributing to and leading programmes and assignments in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India and Nepal with bilateral, multilaterals and other development organisations.
Ruchika has a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi (India). Ruchika has over 19 years of experience in the development sector, with over 10 years focussed on water and sanitation. Prior to this, she worked with Plan International and other implementing organisations on issues related to women and child rights.
Ruchika is interested in strengthening institutions at administrative levels to ensure improved services in communities, with a focus on households from marginalised communities.
The Centre for Environmental Studies of the Anna University, Madras, India, undertook a study in Tamil Nadu, India, to determine the changes in... Read more...
Between January 1987 and March 1988 a health impact evaluation (HIE) of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (RWSSP) was conducted in... Read more...
The effect of control of houseflies on the incidence of diarrhoea and shigellosis was evaluated in a prospective crossover intervention study at two... Read more...
As part of SANDEC's research project on alternative solutions for refuse collection in low-income urban areas in developing countries, the... Read more...
This study used a longitudinal survey of more than 3000 mother- infant pairs observed from pregnancy through infancy. The sample is representative of... Read more...
Examples of dramatic increases of vector-borne diseases caused by large-scale water management projects (dams, irrigation canals) demonstrate the... Read more...
The Delhi College of Engineering, India, tested the structural behaviour of two 2,500 litre ferrocement water tanks. Read more...
A new type of coarse media flocculator, using buoyant media instead of the heavier gravel in order to facilitate cleaning, was evaluated in... Read more...
