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Isabel Blackett

Inclusive Sanitation Specialist

Isabel has over 30 years of working experience focusing on increasing equity and working with governments to develop at-scale poor-inclusive urban sanitation services. Since 2017 she has worked on consulting assignments in Asia with World Bank, ADB, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WaterAid, GIZ and others. From 2005-2016, she was a Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist with the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) and worked with Government departments and agencies to develop pro-poor urban sanitation programs in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Pacific Island countries and South Asia. Previously, she worked in Southern and East Africa for UNICEF, DFID, KfW, AfDB, DANIDA, consulting firms and NGOs. She has an engineering Bachelor's degree and a Master's from the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), Loughborough University, UK and is currently based in Melbourne, Australia.