Regional WASH Officer | IRC Uganda
Mary Ayoreka Concepta is the Regional WASH Officer of IRC Uganda. She is based at IRC’s office in Fort Portal City. Mary Concepta holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health Science from Makerere University - School of Public Health and is completing a Master of Public Health at the University of Manchester.
She has previously worked at Nansana Municipal Council and AMREF Health Africa and has 3 years’ experience in implementing and managing Environmental Health projects including Community Based Research, WASH integrated with communicable disease prevention and control, health and nutrition education and other public health support services.
This article attempts to set out the major issues of the new integrated water resource management (WRM) policy for further debate rather than giving... Read more...
The effects of improving the water supply on the incidence of diarrhoea in 1096 children from three neighbouring villages of the Kirotshe rural... Read more...
This case study, based on interviews with lower caste Tamil women waste pickers in Bangalore from 1989-1990, describes their work, their earnings,... Read more...
The paper describes some small-scale, community based waste management projects, and its emphasis is to access their potential to change the simple,... Read more...