Who's who

A. J. James
609B Hamilton Court
DLFCity, Phase 4
Gurgaon, Haryana 122 022
India
Tel: 0124 (91 from Delhi) 895 1338
Email: ajjames@vsnl.net

A.J. James holds MA and Mphil degrees in Economics, from the Delhi School of Economics and holds a PhD from the University of London. Since 1996, he has been working on water issues, first as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, then as the Principal Consultant (environmental and Resource Economics) at Ecotech Services (India) and (since 1998) as an independent consultant economist. He helped design, supervise and execute one of the first full-fledged contingent valuation surveys done in India (in 10 cities all over the country), to estimate household willingness to pay for cleaning the river Ganges (with professors Anil Markandya and M.N. Murty). He has also independently conducted CV studies, estimating household willingness to pay for better water supplies. In 1999, he did a situational analysis of such demand assessment studies in India for the Water and Sanitation Program. He also studied private water societies for improved water supplies in rural India (Olavanna in Kerala), a community managed rural piped water scheme and private public partnerships for O&M of a water pipelines, in order to prepare Field Notes published by the Water and Sanitation Program.

Belinda Calaguas
WaterAid
Prince Consort House
27-29 Albert Embankment
London SE1 7UB
Tel: 020 7793 4502
Fax: 020 7793 4545
Email: belindacalaguas@wateraid.org

Belinda Calaguas is WaterAid's Advocacy Manager. In this capacity, she undertook to develop WaterAid's international advocacy programme, which now includes a programme of research, documentation, lobbying and UK-based as well as international advocacy on water and sanitation services for the poor. Belinda is also co-ordinating WaterAid's work on water and poverty. Belinda used to work on migrant and refugee issues in Britain. Before that she was involved in issues affecting farmers, women and the urban poor in the Philippines, in various capacities as researcher, trainer, campaigner and advocate.

Cyrus Njiru, Dr.
Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Institute of DevelopmentEngineering
LoughboroughUniversity
Loughborough, LE 11 3 TU
Leicestershire, UK
Tel + 44 1509 222397 (or 222885)
Fax + 44 1509 211079
E-mail: C.Njiru@lboro.ac.uk

Dr Cyrus Njiru is Research Manager at the WEDC Institute of Development Engineering, LoughboroughUniversity in the UK. A Chartered Civil/Water and Sanitary Engineer, and also a Chartered Water and Environmental Manager, Cyrus has considerable water utility management experience. He is currently involved in research in the general area of water supply and management, focusing on financial and institutional aspects of service delivery. He has experience and research interests in financing and cost recovery, and has recently undertaken research on pricing and service differentiation, and investigated application of marketing principles in water services management.

Dale Whittington, Professor
Email: dale_whittington@unc.edu

Since 1986 Dale whittington has worked for the World Bank and other international organizations on the development and application of techniques for estimating the economic value of environmental resources in developing countries, with a particular focus on water and sanitation policy issues. He has designed and carried out environmental valuation studies in Haiti, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Pakistan, China, Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine, and Bulgaria. His current research focuses on the development of planning approaches and methods for the design of improved sanitation systems for rapidly growing cities in developing countries, and the design of municipal water tariffs.

David McDonald
Queen's University, Mac-Corry Hall
Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6
CANADA
Tel: 613-533-6962
Tax: 613-533-2986
Email: dm23@post.queensu.ca
Website: www.queensu.ca/msp

David McDonald is the Director of the Development Studies programme at Queen's University in Canada, and Co-Director of the Municipal Services Project. His research is focused on three themes: cities and globalization, environmental justice, and international migration, with specific attention to service delivery in water and sanitation to the urban poor. The Municipal Services Project examines the impacts of privatization, cost recovery and decentralization on the delivery of basic municipal services, and how these reforms affect environmental and social sustainability. His work is largely focused on Southern Africa, however he has recently expanded his involvement in specific research related to his ongoing work in Latin America and Asia.

David Redhouse
WaterAid
Prince Consort House
27-29 Albert Embankment
London SE1 7UB
Tel: 020 7793 4540
Fax: 020 7793 4545
Email: davidredhouse@wateraid.org

David is WaterAid's policy officer on financing the sector. He is responsible for the planning and delivery of research relevant to WaterAid's country programmes' advocacy across the range of finance issues. This presently includes: valuing the benefits of watsan investments; assessing the likely contributions of international and local private sectors to watsan access for the poor; and, identifying the best way of scaling up community-financed schemes. He previously worked in the UK Civil Service on delivery of domestic Government targets on crime reduction and so his other interests include transfer of lessons from that experience to international work on the Millennium Development Goals.

Derek Hazelton
Pr Eng, MWISA
TSE Water Services
57 Twelfth Street
Orange Grove
2192 South Africa
Tel/fax: +27-11-640-6543
E-mail: tsewater@icon.co.za

Derek Hazelton is the Manager of TSE Water Services, a small consultancy based in South Africa, which he founded to focus on policy, planning and in-the-field issues affecting the sustainability of water service in areas where affordability, institutional and managerial capacity, and skills availability are critical constraints, and at the local/district authority and community levels. Mr. Hazelton has conducted studies and has written about South Africa's free water policy, along with field evaluation of unconventional water cost recovery systems for South Africa's Department of Water Affairs, and has presented widely on issues of successful cost recovery and tariff design.

Dominic Moran
Email: D.Moran@ed.sac.ac.uk

Dominic is Senior Natural Resource Economist at the ScottishAgriculturalCollege in Edinburgh and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment at the University of East Anglia. He specializes in the assessment of demand and willingness to pay for water and sanitation services and the role of demand assessment in the design of public-private partnership arrangements for supply in developing countries. His research interests remain split between developed and developing countries; covering the economics of agro-environmental policy, forest economics, water management and biodiversity conservation. He is currently undertaking a large-scale project for the Scottish Executive to determine public preferences for agricultural outputs in Scotland.

Dominic Waughray
8 Cavendish Square
London, W1M 0ER United Kingdom
Email: Dominic.waughray@erm.com

Mr. Waughray is a Partner with Environmental Resources Management, a major international management consultancy specialising in environment, economics, and social aspects of development. He has eight years' experience in the economic and financial analysis of natural resource development projects, particularly for water and waste investments. This includes assessing demand to develop cost recovery strategies, undertaking cost benefit and cost effectiveness analyses, and recommending economic, regulatory and institutional policy reforms to decentralize services, promote cost recovery and encourage private sector participation. He also possesses project management skills and experience, including team and financial management, project development, design, planning, implementation and evaluation, and in the use of PRA/ RRA methodologies.

Eric Johnson
Email: ericjohnson@igc.org

For the past 15 years Eric Johnson has been involved in the fields of small-scale rural water supply, sanitation, and alternative energy use. He has spent four years as a water/sanitation trainer with ENTRENA, S.A. based in the Dominican Republic, and currently works as an independent consultant in the Central American and Caribbean region. He provides technical and programme support to Enersol Associates, a non-profit organization focussed on renewable energy, and during the last two years he has served as a representative of the Environmental Health Project (EHP) in the Dominican Republic, aiding in the implementation of several components of USAID-funded institutional assistance to the national rural water supply agency there. He also recently served as an advisor providing guidance on economically rational use of renewable energy under funding granted by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Eva Kouassi-Komlan
CREPA
03 BP 7112
Ouagadougou 03
Burkina Faso
tél: +226 36 62 10/ 11
Fax: + 226 36 62 08
Email: eltos24@hotmail.com

Eva is a Sanitary Engineer specialized in Utilities Management at Unesco-IHE Institute in Delft (Netherlands). He works in several water and sanitation areas in West and Central Africa . His main areas of research are cost recovery and urban water utilities finances. His other interests include fundraising for water and sanitation as well as public private partnership development. He is the main facilitator of the Financing and Cost Recovery annual training courses at CREPA.

Francois Brikke
Email: brikke@wanadoo.fr

François is a Senior Economist and a Sanitary Engineer working as an independent consultant and an associate of IRC, International Water and Sanitation Centre. He specialises in the formulation and evaluation of water and sanitation programmes at national and regional levels, with an emphasis on decentralization, public-private partnerships, operation & management, community management and cost recovery issues in developing countries. His other interests include the design of participatory processes and training events on the above-mentioned issues. He is the author of several publications that address financing and cost recovery.

Kristin Komives, UNC
Email: komives@iss.nl

Phil F. W. Bartle, Ph.D
Email: bm038@scn.org

Phil Bartle is a specialist in poverty reduction, micro-enterprise, capacity development and community participation methods as they integrate with other key elements of the assistance and development process. He has worked on development issues in Africa, Europe, North America and Asia for over thirty years, specialising in community based development, management training and skills transfer, and capacity building through a participatory approach. Phil has also developed an Internet website on a variety of development issues, including cost recovery, that includes training materials, reports, links to other sites, a data base, and informal material.

Vivien Foster
Email: vfoster@worldbank.org

Vivien Foster is a Senior Economist in the Office of the Director for Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure in the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank. Her work involves both analytical and advisory services, and economic input into the design and supervision of projects, with a focus on the impacts of infrastructure reform and privatization on the poor. Before joining the World Bank, she was a Managing Consultant of Oxford Economic Research Associates Ltd in the UK where she advised private and public sector clients in the water and energy industries, and worked with numerous Latin American governments on issues relating to water sector reform. She holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University College London.