Deborah Ayodele

Areas of expertise

• Environmental Impacts
• Environmental Policy
• Water and Sanitation for Development
• Water Science and Engineering

Background

Deborah Ayodele holds BSc degree in Water Resources Management from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Nigeria. After completing her degree, she went on to pursue a joint master’s degree in Water Science and Engineering from Unesco-IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands, Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisbon, Portugal, and Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany. After completing her degree, she worked as a WASH support officer for the International Organization for Migration where she was involved in a multi-stakeholder process of mainstreaming gender in WASH, and a project on Closing the Loop of Sustainable Procurement in Displacement Settings Using Innovative Finance with private sector partners.

She is currently building on her initial exploration of institutional aspects, stakeholder management, and nature-based solutions through her PhD on "Community-based Co-design of Small-scale Wastewater Systems".

Research opportunities

- Participatory Water Resources Management under a Changing Climate and Environment.

- Water and Sanitation for Development

Current activities

Doctoral researcher investigating a community-based co-design of small-scale wastewater systems.

Clients

• Scottish Water