Dr Richard Franceys
Senior Lecturer in Water and Sanitation Management
Location: Building 39, Cranfield campus
E: r.w.a.franceys@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 754853
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Richard Franceys is Course Director of the Global Water Policy and Management MSc programme, part of Cranfield’s Water Management Masters programme.Research interests focus upon extending water and sanitation services to all, particularly in the urban areas, the slums, shanties and informal housing areas of lower-income countries. Recent research programmes include Cranfield’s ten country study for DFID: ‘Economic Regulation of Public and Private Partnerships for the Poor’ and the four country DFID study entitled ‘Charging to enter the water shop?’ which challenges prevailing approaches to new water connections costs. As an International Adviser to the four country five year WASHCost project (IRC, The Netherlands) and an evaluator of various DFID supported projects he continues to investigate the costs, tariffs and financing of water and sanitation in the context of service provider capacity development.
Doctoral research students working with Dr Franceys have been investigating aspects of economic regulation worldwide, asset management planning in India, customer involvement in the regulation of water services in Italy, setting prices for universal access and demand management in Namibia, small towns water supply in Ghana, unit costs of rural and peri-urban water and sanitation globally and management contracts for urban water supply, again in Ghana.
Clients
- African Development Bank
- Asian Development Bank
- Department for International Development
- IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
- WaterAid
- Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor
- Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank
Background
Dr Franceys is a European Engineer (Eur Ing), a Chartered Engineer (MICE) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with an MBA and a PhD in Infrastructure for Low Income Communities. He has worked for a major engineering consultant, for an NGO in Southern Sudan for five years, in addition to academic appointments with WEDC, Loughborough University and IHE-UNESCO, Delft. He has a commitment to the involvement of civil society in water management, acting as a Regional Member of the Consumer Council for Water and its predecessors for over ten years. He is on the editorial committee of Water Utility Management International, Habitat International, is an advisory Board member of the International Water Association’s Global Development Solutions, academic adviser to the international ‘Water Dialogues’ and is a member of Suez Environment’s Global Foresight Advisory Council.
