Senior sanitation specialist | Change hub
Erick Baetings has worked for more than 25 years in the WASH sector. He has extensive working and living experience in Nepal and Bhutan (14 years), Zambia (4 years) and Lao PDR (4 years). For his current assignments he travels regularly to Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia.
Practical experiences of adaptation from the Watershed empowering citizens country programmes in Kenya and Bangladesh. Read more...
Unsafely managed sanitation, especially in rural areas, remains a challenge in developing countries as a result of population growth, climate change... Read more...
This book showcases an approach to expand the implementation coverage of the 5 pillars of Community-Based Total Sanitation. Read more...
On World Toilet Day, I am sharing a positive story to inspire everyone. Read more...
A short presentation about KnowledgePoint, an online Q&A platform for humanitarian and development aid workers. Read more...
This working document provides insights into current practice relating to social inclusion in integrated water resources management (IWRM) programmes... Read more...
A briefing note on the use of cellular and satellite connected sensors for near-time monitoring of rural water services in Ethiopia. Read more...
A discussion on ways to use existing systems to improve scale and sustainability of hygiene promotion efforts. Read more...
Existing models used for financing water infrastructure development do not seem very applicable to the realities of small towns. Read more...
Neither rural sustainability checks, nor urban benchmarking frameworks, are entirely suitable for monitoring small town water services. Read more...
This report reviews the landscape of technologies, methods, and approaches that can support and improve on the water and sanitation indicators... Read more...
Video recording of a webinar on the findings of a landscape study on the use of monitoring frameworks for the assessment of WASH systems. Read more...
Innovative mechanisms for the financing of capital maintenance of piped systems in Ghana may not necessarily fix the problems of poor service... Read more...
Possessing a non-shared latrine neither guarantees safety to its users nor its categorisation as 'improved'. Instead, the state of the latrine, the... Read more...
Projects that integrate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH interventions, climate resilience and fresh water conservation are more efficient and... Read more...
This learning note summarizes a study commissioned to map examples of public-private collaboration in consumer sanitation markets from around the... Read more...
This document sets out some of the main service authority and service provider functions required for delivery of sustainable rural water supply... Read more...
Burkina Faso was unable to generate full funding for its previous national programme to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), falling... Read more...
A lack of sanitation access in the community is a significant risk factor for anaemia and child growth stunting, but not for incidence of diarrhoea... Read more...
