StyversÌýKathuni

  • CIVIL ENGINEERING - CIVIL SYSTEMS
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Styvers is pursuing a PhD in Civil Engineering - Civil Systems. He has over 17 years of experience leading complex, high-value water security and resilience programs across Africa. He currently serves as Country Director for the Millennium Water Alliance in Kenya, where he leads water security programs that are funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Coca-Cola Foundation and Swiss Development Agency for Cooperation. Previously, he served as Chief of Party on two USAID-funded water security programs in Kenya. Before joining MWA, he was Regional Director at SweetSense Africa (now Virridy), where he oversaw the installation of over 500 water point monitoring sensors. Earlier in his career, with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in South Sudan, he led WASH activities under a USAID-funded program, and as Team Leader for CRS in Kenya, he oversaw integrated development programs in the country’s arid and semi-arid regions. He has been a Fellow at the Mortenson Center for Global Engineering and Resilience since 2021. Having contributed to programs that have collectively provided access to safe water for over 1.5 million people, he is passionate about advancing sustainable, market-oriented solutions for rural water supply systems.

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Education

  • MS, Water Supply and Sanitation, Kenyatta University
  • BS, Water and Environmental Engineering, Egerton University

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Recent Publications

  • Samo, J., Olela, E., & Kathuni, S. (2023). Private Sector Participation in Water and Rangeland Markets in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs).
  • Thomas, E., Ntazinda, J., & Kathuni, S. (2023). Applying climate reparative finance toward water security.ÌýScience of The Total Environment,Ìý875, 162506.
  • Fankhauser, K., Macharia, D., Coyle, J., Kathuni, S., McNally, A., Slinski, K., & Thomas, E. (2022). Estimating groundwater use and demand in arid Kenya through assimilation of satellite data and in-situ sensors with machine learning toward drought early action. Science of the Total Environment, 831, 154453.
  • Kathuni, S., Akunga, D., Kitur, E. & Letema, S. (2021). School hygiene promotion approaches and their influence on pupil’s hygiene practices in public primary schools in Dagoretti, Nairobi City County, Kenya. Global Journal of Health Sciences, 6 (1), 60 – 75.
  • Thomas, E., Wilson, D., Kathuni, S., Libey, A., Chintalapati, P., & Coyle, J. (2021). A contribution to drought resilience in East Africa through groundwater pump monitoring informed by in-situ instrumentation, remote sensing and ensemble machine learning Science of The Total Environment,Ìý780, 146486.Ìý
  • Thomas, E., Kathuni, S., Wilson, D., Muragijimana, C., Sharpe, T., Kaberia, D., Macharia, D., Kebede, A., & Birhane, P. (2020). The Drought Resilience Impact Platform (DRIP): Improving Water Security Through Actionable Water Management Insights.