Richard Franceys

Institutional Change Management Specialist, Guma Valley Water Company (GVWC) Institutional Strengthening, for MCC-MCCU through Adam Smith International, 2018-2020

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Researcher author for WSUP six case study on Regulation: Regulations & Regulating, 2019

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Postgraduate programme provision: Economic Regulation, ‘Water for All’ Masters Programme 2019 Montpellier, France for Paris AgroTech OpT International Executive Masters In Water Utility Management;

 

Pro-poor WASH specialist, Supporting Inclusive Water and Sanitation Investments – Millennium Challenge Corporation, for Millennium Challenge Corporation through Oxford Policy Management, 2018-2019

 

Specialist on Service Management for the Poor, Technical Assistance on Social Inclusion and Gender Mainstreaming for Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company, Millennium Challenge Account-Zambia, Millennium Challenge Corporation, through CowaterSogema International, 2017-18;

 

Capacity Building, IHUWASH Project led by the National Institute of Urban Affairs, India through IRC, The Netherlands as a consortium partner, 2017-18;

 

Consultant, WASH Financing for UNICEF WASH Specialists, initial programme completed for West & Central Africa Region in Liberia, & Budapest, Hungary for UNICEF New York, 2017-18;

 

Expert Consultation on service regulation and the human rights to drinking water and sanitation, UN Special Rapporteur, Léo Heller, May 2017, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Consultant, Economic Sustainability towards the goal of developing a Technical Standard for Community Scale Resource Recovery Sanitation Treatment Systems, for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through TÜV SÜD Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., 2017;

 

Postgraduate programme provision: Economic Regulation, ‘Water for All’ Masters Programme 2017 for Paris AgroTech OpT International Executive Masters;

 

Consultant, Training and Methodology Revision for Equitable Water Tariffing, for Water Services Regulatory Commission through UNICEF, Mongolia, Oxford Policy Management, 2016-2017;

 

Consultant, Establishment of a new institutional framework for sanitation (utility) in Juba, South Sudan, GIZ (2016, fieldwork postponed);

 

Principal Investigator, Community management of rural water supply systems (India) for Australian Aid, DFAT AUD$1.1m, 2013-2016, Cranfield University and IRC, The Netherlands

 

Consultant, Evaluation of WSUP, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor, for DFID, incl. Kenya fieldwork, INTRAC, 2015-16;

 

Team Leader, Kigali Central Sewage – Feasibility Study, Financing and Socio-Economic Feasibility, WS Atkins for European Investment Bank, 2015-16;

 

Consultant, Kenya Urban Water Utility Commercial Financing Assistance, with WS Atkins for EY for World Bank, 2015;

 

Consultant, WSUP Training Seminar, Lusaka, Zambia and author of Public Works Loans Board briefing note with regard to government historical financing in England and Wales, 2015;

 

Team Member, The limits and possibilities of prepaid water meters in Africa: lessons from the field, for WSP-World Bank, 2013-14;

 

Reviewer and Technical Advisory Committee, GLAAS and TrackFin, 2012-2014 for World Health Organisation;

 

Postgraduate lecturer Financial, Regulatory and Pro-Poor Service Elements and Group Project Supervisor, Montpellier and Kampala for Paris AgroTech Executive Masters ‘Water for All’ Programme 2013 & 2015;

 

Consultant Advisor, 2013-14, Establishment of Pro-Poor Unit for Ghana Water Ltd, Accra, for Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP);

 

Consultant, 2013, Strengthening Regulation in the Water Sector – Complaints Management, GIZ for Albanian Water Regulatory Authority (WRA);

 

Global Foresight Advisory Council, Suez Environnement, 2007-2013, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Chongqing, Algiers;

 

Team Member, Cranfield University NanoMembrane Toilet, for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Reinventing the toilet challenge, 2012-13;

 

Team Leader, 2011-2013, WaterChoices Kiosks, Kenya and Burkina Faso, for Suez Environnement ‘Water for all’ Foundation;

 

Team Leader, A comprehensive literature review on charging for and subsidising WASH services, UNICEF, New York, November 2011;

 

Consultant,2010-2011, Financial modelling for services to the urban poor - Ghana, for USAID through Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP);

 

Consultant, Performance management framework and establishment of pro-poor KPIs for water utilities, for Ghana Water Ltd and WSUP, 2013;

 

Consultant, 2010-2014, Innovative solutions to Yemen’s water crisis, Firebrace Consulting for Foreign & Commonwealth Office;

 

Advisory Panel, WashCost Research, IRC, The Netherlands for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2008-2013, India 2008, 2009, Ghana 2008, 2010, Mozambique 2009 & 2011;

 

Concept note development, Output Based Aid in Water and Sanitation, for DFID, 2010;

 

Field note researcher and author, ‘24/7 water is achievable’, for Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank, New Delhi, 2010; 

 

Consultant, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor, WSUP, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009;

 

Team Leader, Evaluation of International Benchmarking Initiative (IBNET), World Bank, for DFID, 2009;

 

Consultant, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor, Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia, Action Contre Le Faim, Paris, 2009;