Technical Guide to EcoSan Promotion

Authors’ profiles
Mr. Patrick Onyango
Onyango has 20 years experience in Water Supply & Sanitation and holds a BSc. Degree in Civil & Hydraulic Engineering
from Suderburg Engineering Institute based in Lower Saxony, Federal Republic of Germany. He is a member of the
European Institute of Civil Engineers (ATV). Mr. Onyango’s career commenced in 1990 when he worked with the
German Technical Cooperation in Kenya for 14 years until 2004. He then left for Southern Sudan where he worked for
the World Food Programme and GTZ-IS International Programme. From 2007 – 2008, Mr. Onyango joined Western
Kenyan Water & Sewerage Services Company spanning five districts. Towards the end of 2008, he moved to Nairobi
as one of the pioneers of GTZ/SIDA/EU EcoSan Promotion Project (EPP) hosted by the Kenyan Ministry of Water &
Irrigation. He holds the position of GTZ Project Manager for the EPP.
Onyango’s competence is more pronounced in the following technical areas: Rural Water Supply & Sanitation; Urban
Water Supply & Sanitation; Ecological Sanitation with more emphasis on on-site sanitation systems; General Project
Management; Project Design & Project Planning in multi-disciplinary integrated Programmes, and last but not least,
moderation & facilitation domains. These competencies have been well demonstrated in the Southern Sudan Emergency
Road & Dyke Rehabilitation Programme and also in Lamu & Tana Districts of Kenyan coastal province where 60,000
people were settled within the German Assisted Programme (GASP).
Mr. Onyango has also presided over production of over 40 internal publications targeting counterpart ministries and
settlers within the GASP. In 2009, he attended the Water & Sanitation Conference in Boswana. In January 2010, he also
participated in the International Conference in Japan whose theme dwelt on the follow up of year of Sanitation. Finally,
Mr. Onyango has had long and short-term international engagements in S. Africa, Japan, Botswana, Germany, Tanzania,
Sudan, Uganda and of course, his home country - Kenya.
Mr. Orodi Odhiambo
Orodi Odhiambo Johannes Dovens holds an Egerton College diploma in Agricultural Engineering (Power and Machinery
option) and a BSc honours degree in Agricultural Engineering from Egerton University. He has submitted a thesis titled”
Predicting Sugarcane biomass using remote sensing and GIS techniques” for an MSc degree examination with the Board
of Post Graduate studies of the University of Nairobi and is currently developing a PhD proposal.
He is a versatile, experienced hands-on technocrat with a wide range of exposure in the training of diploma,
undergraduate and post graduate students in diverse areas of Engineering that spans through Mechanical Engineering
(Thermodynamics, Mechanics of Machines, Material Science), Surveying, Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering,
Soil and Water Conservation, Environmental Engineering, Structures Engineering, Food and Process Engineering,
Power and Machinery Systems Engineering and a host of short courses in rainwater harvesting, grain storage structures,
coffee processing, micro-hydropower and integrated water resources management (IWRM) among others.
He is a seasoned extension worker providing outreach services to communities, consultancy services to NGOs, line
Ministries and International agencies. He is a possibility believer thriving on challenges while seeking technological
solutions to express the depth of Gods infinite endowment in mankind for the benefit of the world and the physical earth.
An astute public speaker, writer and team leader, he is currently serving as a Chief Technologist at the University of
Nairobi and a consultant on rainwater management technologies to Global Water Partnership- Associated Partnership
based at World Agroforestry Centre.
Mr. Alex R. Oduor
Oduor has 25 years experience in agricultural engineering with a bias in soil & water conservation, and holds an MSc.
Degree in Water and Environmental Resources Management from UNESCO-IHE (Infrastructural, Hydraulics &
Environmental Engineering) Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands. He is a member of Southern and
Eastern Africa Rainwater Network, Southern and Eastern Africa Society for Agricultural Engineers, the Kenya Society of
Agricultural Engineers, Kenya Rainwater Association and Rainwater Partnership hosted at UNEP.
His career commenced during Sida’s Soil & Water Conservation era of the 80’s when he worked with Kenya’s Ministry
of Agriculture, the Swedish Agency for Research in Developing Countries (SAREC) on Soil & Water Management
Post Graduate Programme at the University of Nairobi and lately, the Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA and
the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). His competence is more pronounced in the Research & design of Soil, Water
& Environmental Engineering Infrastructure; Watershed Management, technological development for Rainwater
Harvesting; Soil Erosion & Environmental Conservation. He has assessed and developed frameworks on the potential
of rainwater harvesting for the African continent and 12 selected countries. Mr. Oduor has also evaluated sand dam
potentials in sub-basins of rivers in Mwala and Yatta Districts (Kenya). He has been engaged in developing Rwanda’s
Irrigation Master Plan under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture & Mineral Resources.
Mr. Oduor has also presided over Documentation and some authorship of over 80 Land Management publications during
his tenure with the Regional Land Management Unit and the Global Water Partnership Associated Programme. Coauthorship
with his colleagues has earned several awards for their publications especially at the Stockholm World Water
Week symposium. Finally, Mr. Oduor has had long and short-term international engagements in Belgium, Botswana,
Burundi, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, France, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, The Netherlands, Norway, Rwanda,
Somalia, Swaziland, Switzerland, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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