Ben Yaw Ampomah
He served as Executive Secretary of the Water Resources Commission and is now an Individual Consultant. His expertise includes water governance, IWRM, policy development, environmental economics, capacity building, and transboundary water cooperation. He has led national initiatives such as Ghana’s IWRM Plans, the Riparian Buffer Zone Policy, and the Volta Basin Water Charter, and has trained water practitioners across Africa. Mr.
Olivier Kanangire
Most people who advise governments on how to run essential services have seen those systems from the outside. Olivier Kanangire has spent 18 years inside one – moving from the chemistry bench of a water treatment plant through utility management, projects planning and public-private partnership (PPP) contracts management, to leading the governance work that determines whether Rwanda's institutions can sustain what they’ve built.
Credit where credit is due: building creditworthy rural utilities
Reflections from strengthening creditworthiness of water utilities in Rwanda under Isoko y'Ubuzima
It was fascinating to sit in a room with rural water operators who carry the daily responsibility of running small piped water systems, often serving between 300 and 1,000 connections. These operators are at the frontline of ensuring reliable water services. They read meters, collect payments, repair leaks, manage staff, and respond when systems fail. The continuity of water services in rural communities depends on their work.
Professionalisation of Rwanda’s public utility WASAC
The lack of bankable project pipelines has been identified as a major bottleneck in the mobilisation of repayable finance of any type (concessional or commercial; sovereign or non-sovereign; on-lent or on-granted) in support of water infrastructure development in Africa (OECD, 2011; Lakhmeerahan et al. 2020).
Bénigne Mugwaneza Ishimwe
Bénigne Mugwaneza Ishimwe began her working life telling stories – as a youth radio journalist in Rwanda, interviewing, listening well, and translating complex ideas for an audience. That early instinct for how communication shapes understanding has never left her. It runs through everything she has done since: facilitation, stakeholder engagement, governance coordination, and now the leadership of the Riva Network's secretariat at a pivotal moment in its evolution.