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.
Implementing a highly successful rural sanitation and hygiene programme in East Indonesia has taught us some important lessons. The most relevant being that approaches designed and applied to implement a successful programme are not necessarily scalable. We learned that to be able to work at scale... Read more...
What are the challenges with Water Point Mapping? and what lessons can be learned from the failures? What about the future of Water Point Mapping?... Read more...
Webinar discussing the state-of-play in national level monitoring of rural water supply, with presentations also of country-led monitoring systems... Read more...
This Asian regional face-to-face learning event discussed ways to make behaviour change communication (BCC) for sanitation and hygiene promotion... Read more...
BRAC WASH has researched how to develop a viable process for faecal sludge-based organic fertiliser. Read more...
Safe disposal of children's faeces is as essential as the safe disposal of adults' feces and yet in most countries analysed, over 50 percent of... Read more...
This report presents an overall analysis of the current Ethiopian private sector landscape in water and sanitation, with case study chapters... Read more...
Communal wealth is one of the most important factors affecting rural water services, and household connections are the only technology which can... Read more...
Sustainability instruments contribute to better water, sanitation of hygiene (WASH) projects but still face shortcomings. Read more...
Development partners are giving more attention to professionalisation of community management, recognition of alternative service provider options... Read more...
Mapping the demand for sanitation, against the capacity of supply chain actors to supply affordable products that meet consumer needs and desires. Read more...
The 2014 update on Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water (WHO and UNICEF, 2014) mentions that between 1990 and 2012, open defecation decreased from 24 per cent to 14 per cent globally. However, the update also states that more than one third of the global population – some 2.5 billion people —... Read more...
Case study on rapid assessment to identify supply chain challenges. Read more...
While the importance of hygiene is increasingly being recognized, far less consideration has been given to the role of the complete WASH package in... Read more...
In an increasingly urbanising world, with some 863 million people living in informal urban settlements in 2012 (based on UN estimates), there is a... Read more...
