Joep Verhagen
Manager, South Asia & Latin America Team
Joep has worked in the WASH sector for the last 20 years with a particular interest in rural sanitation. Following a ten-year stint as an independent consultant in India, Joep joined IRC in 2005. Within IRC, he has increasingly focused on support for large-scale rural sanitation programmes and he has worked on a range of issues such as adaptive management, monitoring, productive use of faecal sludge, sanitation marketing, social mobilisation and social marketing. Currently, he is leading a capacity development programme for senior officials of the Government of India. He is project director of the IRC-led technical assistance project to the BRAC WASH II programme which seeks to provide sustainable sanitation services to 55 million people and has a budget of approximately US$ 100 million. One of his latest assignments is the lead consultant for the design of the sanitation component of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme for Low Income States (RWSSP-LIS – a World Bank Loan to the GoI with a volume of US$ 1 billion).
Besides his content related work, Joep is the manager of the IRC South Asia and Latin America programme. In this capacity, he is a member of the IRC Management Team, oversees a range of sanitation programmes in South and South-East Asia and is responsible for the line-management of 11 professionals.
