Bios of the symposium topic leaders & other speakers
In this folder, short biographies of the six symposium topic leaders and other speakers at the symposium.
Catarina de Albuquerque
| The Statement of Catarina de Albuquerque is planned as part of the plenary opening session on Tuesday morning 9 April 2013. Catarina de Albuquerque is the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation (formerly Independent Expert). She was appointed by the Human Rights Council in September 2008, having started her mandate on 1 November that year. |
Stef Smits, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
| Stef Smits will be opening the symposium with a key note presentation based on the symposium background paper for the Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium. Stef is a senior programme officer at the IRC, amongst others coordinating IRC’s Latin America Regional Programme. |
Topic leader: Catarina Fonseca, IRC /WASHCost
| Catarina Fonseca is the topic leader of Symposium Topic 1. Monitoring the finance needed for service delivery. Catarina Fonseca is an economist and a Senior Programme Officer at IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC). Since 2000, Catarina has been coordinating the financing and cost recovery theme at IRC. |
Topic leader: Kerstin Danert, RWSN
| Kerstin Danert, RWSN is the topic leader of Symposium Topic 2: Country-led and country-wide monitoring of rural and small towns water supplies. She has fifteen years of experience as a rural water supply specialist with particular skills in performance monitoring, improving cost-effective water well provision and technology adoption. |
Topic leader: Harold Lockwood, Aguaconsult and IRC /Triple-S
| Harold Lockwood, Aguaconsult and IRC /Triple-S is the topic leader for Symposium Topic 3: Project monitoring: A vicious cycle of donor accountability or a necessary stepping stone to better national WASH sector monitoring? |
Topic leader: Joseph Pearce, WaterAid
| Joseph Pearce, WaterAid is the topic leader of Symposium Topic 4: ICT for monitoring sustainable service delivery. He is a water and sanitation governance specialist with nine years professional and academic experience in Africa and Asia. |
Topic leader: Carolien van der Voorden, WSSCC
| Carolien van der Voorden, WSSCC is the topic leader of Symposium Topic 5: Monitoring for sanitation and hygiene. Carolien is a Senior Programme Officer in the Networking and Knowledge Management department of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC). |
Topic leader: Piers Cross in collaboration with UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking- Water (UN-Water GLAAS)
| Piers Cross is the topic leader of Symposium Topic 6: Building coherence in global-regional -national WASH monitoring. Piers Cross is a leading international spokesperson and strategist in water supply and sanitation. He has worked for the World Bank for over 20 years. His appointments include: Global Program Manager of the Water and Sanitation Program and Regional Team Leader for Africa, as well as Asia. |
Katharina Welle
| Katharina Welle is contributing to the symposium with a plenary presentation 'Monitoring performance or performing monitoring? Lessons on the politics of monitoring' on Wednesday 10 April 2013. Katharina is an independent consultant who specialises in the interface between research, policy and practice of development. |
Rolf Luyendijk, Senior statistics and monitoring specialist, UNICEF
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Rolf Luyendijk will contribute to the symposium with the plenary presentation 'Global and national monitoring’s forgotten |
