Rights-based Approaches to Water Sanitation and Hygiene Programming
Anne Sheeran
Ph.D., M.R.P.
independent consultant
February 6, 2007
About the speaker
Anne Sheeran is a social scientist with over twenty years combined fieldwork and research in South Asia. She began her work in development in the 1980s in Sri Lanka, on a recolonization and irrigation program funded by the European Union. Since the mid-1990s she has worked with international organizations including the United Nations Children's Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the European Union, and Save the Children, on water, sanitation, and hygiene programming, advocacy, and evaluation.
Between 2000 and 2006 she held a Visiting Scholar Appointment at the South Asia Program/Jackson School of International Studies here at UW. She began her doctoral work at Cornell University in the Department of City and Regional Planning, obtaining a masters focusing on irrigation studies and agrarian change, then completed her doctoral work here at UW in anthropology.