Stacey Noel is the Centre Director for Dar es Salaam.  She is a social economist who does research in developing countries on the interaction between water, poverty and economic growth.

Stacey joined SEI in June 2005 and was based at SEI-York until August 2008, when she moved to SEI Africa’s Coordinating Office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She is a Research Fellow and serves as Director of SEI’s Water Resources and Sanitation Programme.

Stacey has an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics. Her main research topics are water and livelihoods; water’s role in economic growth; water, poverty and ecosystem services; and alternative livelihoods and marine conservation.

She has most recently worked on household-level studies in Vietnam, Cambodia and Tanzania, focusing on how poor households use ecosystem water sources in rural livelihoods. She has also researched the link between access to water for domestic use and small-scale household-based activities and poverty and economic growth in developing countries.

Work experience before SEI
Co-Founder and Project Director, The Cayes Foundation, Punta Gorda, Belize

Project Coordinator and Development Officer, Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE), Punta Gorda, Belize

Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. and Hong Kong

Education
BA with High Honours, Plan II Honours Programme and Government, University of Texas (Austin)

Diploma with Distinction, Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics

MSc with Merit, Development Management, London School of Economics

Projects
Technical Backstopping to Support the Assessment of Investment & Financial Flows to role Climate Change in Developing Countries, in partnership with Pan-Africa START Office and Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, funded by UNDP

Sustainable Pathways to MDG Attainment, funded by Sida

Study on Wastewater Treatment and the Impact of Household Chemicals on the Environment, funded by Unilever Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre

What’s Water Worth? Water’s Contribution to Poverty Reduction and Economic Development, funded by US State.

Green Water Credits, consortium led by ISRIC and funded by IFAD

Agricultural Water Management Interventions, consortium led by IWMI and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Publications

• Sanitation and Hygiene: Policy, Stated Beliefs and Actual Practice: A Case Study in the Burera District, Rwanda (Working paper - 2012)

• Valuing soft components in agricultural water management interventions in meso-scale watersheds: A review and synthesis (Journal article - 2011)

• The Millennium Development Goals in 2010 - threats to ecosystem services from air pollution, energy generation and pesticide use (Policy brief - 2010)

• AWM Interventions and Monitoring and Evaluation: Potential Approaches at the Watershed Level (Project report - 2010)

• Impacts of Pollution on Ecosystem Services for the Millennium Development Goals (Project report - 2010)

• The Impact of Domestic Water on Household Enterprises: Evidence from Vietnam (Journal article - 2010)

• Ecosystem Services Supporting Livelihoods in Cambodia (Project report - 2010)

• Agricultural water management in smallholder farming systems: the value of soft components in mesoscale interventions (Project report - 2008)

• Valuing ecosystem goods and services (Journal article - 2008)

• Sources of Water for Household Enterprises in Rural Vietnam (Proceedings - 2008)

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Projects

• Multi-level Sanitation Policy and Practice in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania

  
  

• Raising awareness of water-poverty linkages for development in the African context

  
  

• AgWater Solutions dialogue

  
  

• FP7 Healthy Futures

  
  

• CPWF L1 - Targetting and Out-scaling in the Limpopo Basin

  
  

• AgWater Solutions Project

  
  

• Poverty-Environment Partnerships (PEP)

  
  

• Phnom Penh Water Relations