IRC Staff Changes

John Butterworth

will join IRC per 1 May 2005 as Programme Officer within the Knowledge Development and Advocacy section. He comes from the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) at the University of Greenwich, UK, where he was a water management specialist. He has previously worked for the UK Department for International Development, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and Scott Wilson Resource Consultants on a range of projects and programmes, principally in southern Africa, India and Bolivia. His research interests include: water resources management issues in relation to WATSAN and how these are reflected in integrated water resources management (IWRM) processes; the impacts of water supplies on livelihoods, optimising the potential of multi-purpose water supplies to reduce poverty; and the processes of negotiation in peri-urban water conflicts.

Leonie Postma

has left IRC to work for the Netherlands Development Organisation SNV as Advisor Social Mobilization in Water Management in Angola. She will be given plenty of opportunities to use and test materials and concepts developed by IRC and partners, especially those related to community management, scaling up as well as the tools used in participatory management such as QIS. In IRC Leonie Postma was responsible for all training and advisory services. She was also Programme Manager for the focus area “Participatory management tools” which includes the development of information products and the coordination of programmes dealing with participatory management tools such as Qualitative Information Systems (QIS), Methodology for Participatory Assessment (MPA) and Action Monitoring for Effectiveness.

Teun Bastemeyer

after 12 years with IRC, will take up the position of Senior Advisor Water Management with the Netherlands Development Organisation SNV in Nicaragua. He will lead teams of advisors who are supporting local authorities. Thematically he will focus on public private partnerships. Generally he will help strengthen the knowledge base and enhance SNV’s role and capacities in Latin America and globally. Within IRC Teun Bastemeyer was involved in strengthening the Resource Centres. He was the first executive secretary of the Streams of Knowledge (SOK) global coalition of Resource Centres. He wrote or contributed to various IRC publications on maintenance systems for rural water supplies, protection of drinking water sources, cost recovery, small town water supply and water resources management, and the role of Resource Centres for knowledge management in the water sector.