Position at SIWI: Programme Manager, GoAL WaSH, UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI
Email: alejandro.jimenez@siwi.org
Phone: +46 8 121 360 41
Responsibilities
Dr. Alejandro Jiménez is a member of the Knowledge Services Department at SIWI and supports the implementation of the portfolio activities through applied research, advisory services and capacity building. Furthermore, Dr. Jiménez works as a Programme Manager at the UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI (WGF). His main responsibility is to coordinate the GoAL WASH Programme, which is a UNDP global programme aiming to accelerate achievement of the water and sanitation MDGs through strategically targeted interventions that strengthen governance of WASH at national levels.
Competence
Dr. Jiménez has a wide experience with advisory services, applied research and capacity building in the water and sanitation sector. His main area of expertise is WASH governance, but he also has experience in other areas such as water resources management and climate change adaptation.
Dr. Jiménez has over ten years of working experience in WASH. Working as Water and Sanitation Coordinator for the Spanish NGO ONGAWA in several countries gave him a good knowledge of various regions and first-hand experience of the challenges involved in implementation of water and sanitation programme.
Dr. Jiménez has combined his practitioner activity with research and consultancy, mainly in the Research Group on Cooperation and Human Development from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). He has been participating in and leading consultancy projects for major international agencies in different countries. Additionally, he has published several articles and book chapters, especially in the areas of water and sanitation governance, the definition of monitoring indicators for WASH, local governments’ role in the provision of water and sanitation, and the implementation of the human right to water and sanitation.
Background
Dr. Jiménez is a Civil Engineer with an Msc in Hydraulics, from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). He obtained his PhD at the Technical University of Catalonia in 2010. His PhD thesis on the governance of rural water was awarded in July 2011 as the Best Thesis on Cooperation and Development in the field of Engineering and Architecture, in the IV National Awards for Research in Development Cooperation in Spain. During 2012-2013 he has been enjoying a post-doctoral fellowship at the Environmental Health Group of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, focusing his research on sanitation governance.
