Position at SIWI: Programme Manager, GoAL WaSH
Email: alastair.morrison@siwi.org
Phone: + 46 8 121 360 41
Responsibilities
Mr. Morrison works at the UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI as Water Governance Advisor. He is responsible for supporting UNDP’s work in water resources management, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, water supply and sanitation. Mr Morrison also provides technical guidance and programme management support to UNDP country offices to implement UNDP’s water and sanitation programme, GoAL WaSH. This work has been guided by collaborating with local stakeholders and ministries to develop GoAL WaSH strategies in accordance to specific country needs.
Other responsibilities include scoping missions to develop new UNDP Water Governance projects, participation in Swedish and international conferences on aid and development, as well as advocacy and media work on climate change, water and sanitation.
Competence
Mr. Morrison has extensive experience in working with water governance, infrastructure planning, disaster, flood and coastal zone management throughout Africa, Asia and Europe. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and the UNDP, as well as worked for Oxfam and the global engineering consultancy Binnie Black & Veatch. His areas of expertise include water, sanitation and health issues, disaster recovery, water governance and climate adaptation.
He has work experience from a range of countries across continents, including South Sudan, Djibouti, Angola, Australia, Belize, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Liberia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Mozambique, Romania, Sweden, Timor-Leste, Uganda, United Kingdom and Zambia. Mr Morrison is fluent in English and proficient in French, Portuguese and Indonesian.
Background
Mr. Morrison took his MA in Civil Engineer from Cambridge University in 1989 and an MSc Hydrology for Environmental Management from Imperial College, London in 2001.
