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Mélanie Carrasco

Programme Officer

Mélanie is a water and sanitation engineer working in the WASH sector since 2002. She worked 5 years in the private sector in hydraulic design and construction followed by 7 years in the humanitarian and development sector. Mélanie has an extensive field experience as WASH programme manager and coordinator mainly in emergency contexts, and was based and worked in various countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

She joined IRC in 2012 as a Programme Officer and has been involved in various research and monitoring initiatives, mainly in the field of sanitation, hygiene and MUS (Multiple Use of water Services). Mélanie is the facilitator of the online life-cycle costing training and is working with UNCHR to adapt the life-cycle cost approach to emergency contexts.

Languages: English, German, French, Spanish

A critical review of technologies for pit latrine emptying in developing countries

Key factors to improve area-wide urban sanitation : case study of Gitega (Burundi) : paper presented at the East Africa practioners workshop on pro-poor urban sanitation and hygiene, Laico Umbano Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda, march 29th - 31st 2011

Operation and maintenance of sustainable sanitation systems

Technologies for climate change adaptation : the water sector

Diarrhoea and effects of different water sources, sanitation and hygiene behaviour in East Africa

Methodological lessons and findings from an impact evaluation of a WASH project in Indonesia

The challenge of servicing on-site sanitation in dense urban areas : experiences from a pilot project in Dhaka

The sanitation ladder : a need for a revamp? : paper presented at the IWA Development Congress, November 15-19, 2009, Mexico City, Mexico

Learning to work together on urban water management in the city of seven rivers : an assessment of the SWITCH project in Cali

WASH in schools monitoring package

Published on: 29/07/2011

This package is designed as a resource for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and education professionals and practitioners to strengthen national... Read more...

Reflection on the achievements and lessons from the SWITCH urban water management initiative in Lodz, Poland

Starting at the top: preventing pollution from tanneries and cleaning up the Rio Bogotá

Participatory development of national school health policies : some lessons learned from Kenya

Removal of Escherichia coli from biological effluents using natural and artificial mineral aggregates

Raising visibility and voices of the urban poor : civil society’s engagement in urban water and sanitation reform – experiences from WaterAid country programmes

Worms at work : long-run impacts of child health gains

Effect of deep tube well use on childhood diarrhoea in Bangladesh

Water, sanitation and hygiene for faith-based schools

Best practices in water supply and sanitation : learning from successful projects : case study from the 2006 annual evaluation review

Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth : a report of the working group on decoupling to the international resource panel

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