Christine Sybesma
Senior Programme Officer, South Asia & Latin America Team
Key activities
After five years as head of IRC's then research department and member of IRC's management team, Dr. Sijbesma went back to field work on participatory management tools, hygiene, sanitation and gender. She is also active in institutional development and capacity building on socio-organizational aspects of participatory water supply and sanitation programmes and hygiene behaviour change.
Background
Christine Sijbesma is a sociologist with a MA from Utrecht University and a post-doctorate and PhD from Wageningen University. She has over 30 years experience in the social and health aspects of community water supply and sanitation programmes. Her specializations are policy development and the implementation of community participation and community management in rural and peri-urban water supply, sanitation and hygiene with a focus on gender and socio-economic equality. Her working experience is in all world regions except for the Middle East and the Pacific.
Publications
Author and co-author/editor of numerous periodical articles and several IRC publications, including:
- Sijbesma C. and Dijk, M. P. van, eds. (2006). Water and Sanitation: Institutional Challenges in India. New Delhi: Manohar
- Monitoring Millennium Development Goals for Water and Sanitation: A review of experiences and challenges; 2004. K. Shordt, C. van Wijk. F. Brikke (IRC) and S. Hesselbarth (SHDC). Delft, The Netherlands: IRC and KfW;
- Linking water supply and poverty alleviation: The impact of women's productive use of water and time on household economy and gender relations in Banaskantha District, Gujarat, India. 2004. J. Verhagen, A.J. James, C. van Wijk, R. Nanavaty, M. Parikh, M. Bhatt. Delft: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre;
- Sustainability planning and monitoring in community water supply and sanitation: a guide on the methodology for participatory assessment for community-driven development programs; 2003. N. Mukherjee and C. van Wijk, eds. Washington, DC, USA, World Bank;
- Hygiene Promotion; 2003. Brian Appleton and Christine vanWijk, (TOP 1);
- Small Community Water Supplies: Technology, People and Partnership; 2002. Jo Smet and Christine van Wijk, (TP 40);
- Gender in Water Resources Management, Water Supply and Sanitation : Roles and Realities Revisited, Christine van Wijk,1998 (TP 33-E).
Languages
Dutch, English, French, Kiswahili and Spanish.
