Exploring Strategies to Deal with Sustainability and Water Management Challenges

Our Expertise

Project Locations

The Netherlands, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thiland

Our Team

Willem is a senior expert on integrated water resources management. Willem started Carthago Consultancy as an independent consultancy in 1995. Ever since he has been involved in advising on management of large river, both in Netherlands and international. Currently Willem is involved in projects in Bangladesh, Vietnam and Pakistan.

Myisha Ahmad is a specialist- Integrated Water Resource Management and Livelihood, Climate Change Programme at BRAC, Bangladesh. She develops frameworks to balance climatic risks and sustainable livelihoods in flood-prone, drought prone and saline prone lands and supports decision-making and management practices by integrating analysis of predicted/probabilistic damages and socio-ecological dynamics in the context of climate change. 

Syeda is an Integrated Water Resources Management expert at Carthago. She has a Master's in Flood Risk Management from the Erasmus Mundus program. She specializes in developing decision support tools and using them to design and facilitate serious games based on her knowledge of climate resilience and participatory approaches in urban and rural settings. 

About Carthago 

During 25 years as an integrated water management consultant, Willem realized the importance of the interaction between the engineering world and the human world of livelihood of local communities. 

Water management challenges seldom deal with isolated water issues, but always involves societal challenges and problems as well. At Carthago, we always try to explore this interaction between engineering and governance to develop strategies to deal with the hydrological challenges. 

Carthago believes, water engineering is only worth the effort we spend on it, if and only if, it ensures improvement of the life situation of the people.

Our Clients

Contact

Willem van Deursen, Carthago Consultancy
Schiekade 189 - unit 1.03
3013 BR  Rotterdam
The Netherlands