Erick Baetings holds a master’s degree (MSc) in Water and Environmental Management for Developing Countries from the University of Technology, Loughborough, England. He has worked for more than 30 years in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector and gained extensive working and living experience in Nepal and Bhutan (14 years), Zambia (four years) and Lao People's Democratic Republic (four years). Since his return to the Netherlands he has travelled regularly for short assignments to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam in Asia, and Ethiopia in Africa.

Erick is a sanitation expert with rural and urban experience in developing result monitoring frameworks, facilitating sector learning, developing rapid assessment tools and applying these for sanitation related research (e.g. supply and demand studies and urban faecal waste flow assessments). He is currently working on a new results framework for the Global Sanitation Fund and developing an action research framework for the USAID Transform WASH programme in Ethiopia. His work to further develop the faecal waste flow calculator to assess and map urban faecal waste flows and associated practices is continuing.

Erick Baetings holds a master’s degree (MSc) in Water and Environmental Management for Developing Countries from the University of Technology, Loughborough, England. He has worked for more than 30 years in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector and gained extensive working and living experience in Nepal and Bhutan (14 years), Zambia (four years) and Lao People's Democratic Republic (four years). Since his return to the Netherlands he has travelled regularly for short assignments to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam in Asia, and Ethiopia in Africa.

Erick is a sanitation expert with rural and urban experience in developing result monitoring frameworks, facilitating sector learning, developing rapid assessment tools and applying these for sanitation related research (e.g. supply and demand studies and urban faecal waste flow assessments). He is currently working on a new results framework for the Global Sanitation Fund and developing an action research framework for the USAID Transform WASH programme in Ethiopia. His work to further develop the faecal waste flow calculator to assess and map urban faecal waste flows and associated practices is continuing.

My focus is on developing rapid assessment tools and delivery mechanisms that can be replicated and scaled up under local government leadership

Erick Baetings