Former Programme Officer| Change hub
Vera is a Master of Arts: Journalism and post graduate in Electronic Information Management (Moscow State University and The Robert Gordon University). In the past 15 years, she has gained experiences in working with both traditional and new media, strategic communications, publications, knowledge and information management, communication technologies and children's issues. Prior to joining IRC, she worked for the Bernard van Leer Foundation in Den Haag (the Netherlands) that works to improve opportunities for children up to age 8 who are growing up in socially and economically difficult circumstances; Save the children – Redd Barna(Uganda) and Commercial Television (STV-Uganda).
Vera was appointed organisational trust person in 2016.
"What kind of sanitation facilities should be provided when treating Ebola? Can anyone suggest a low cost water filter for individual household that can remove iron as well as arsenic? I'm looking for studies evaluating the benefits (health, social, environmental) of running water at home vs. water... Read more...
Between 2009-2014 IRC through the Triple S project supported Ghana's rural water agency CWSA to build consensus around a new vision of adequate water... Read more...
30 and 31 March 2015 IRC will host the Multiple Use water Services Group meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands. The goal of the meeting is to identify the potential contributions of a MUS perspective to the water resource management and water tenure debates, in particular ongoing global efforts to... Read more...
The Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) honours IRC Uganda's Country Director. Read more...
The domain of inquiry of this review is the rural water sector in low- and middle-income countries. Read more...
Learning and knowledge management supported at national and decentralised levels to enable the sector to adapt based on experience. Read more...
Is a decentralised community based management approach to rural drinking water services sustainable? Evidence from a project in Kerala, India. Read more...
A Sustainability Forum will take place in Ghana this week, focusing on gains made on sustainable services and on WASH partnerships for the future. Since its inception in 2009, the Triple-S project has worked together with the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), partner districts Akatsi,... 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...
The report describes results of an assessment of harmonisation and alignment, two key principles of Aid Effectiveness, in Ghana's water sector. Read more...
IRC will be co-organising and hosting the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) Country Processes Task Team (CPTT) meeting being held in The Hague, Netherlands, on the 2nd and 3rd, December, 2014 The CPTT has conducted various pieces of work in the last one year, notable among these is: the series of... Read more...
Together with the IRC, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands Water Partnership and the SWA secretariat, Simavi is organising an informal networking event to highlight the role of water and sanitation facilities apart from household facilities in the Sustainable Development Goals... Read more...
IRC's event on November 12th explored how public finance can be used effectively together with aid and private finance to support sustainable services at scale. Read more...
How can public finance be used effectively together with philanthropy/aid as well as private finance to support sustainable services at scale? Read more...
This policy brief offers recommendations based on piloting of indicators to monitor water service delivery and performance in rural Uganda. Read more...
This policy briefing presents findings from an assessment of the predominant community management model for rural water services in Uganda. Read more...