Naomi Oates

Research Officer, Water Policy

Naomi Oates is a Research Officer on ODI's Water Policy Programme. Her research focuses on the socio-economic and institutional dimensions of: climate change vulnerability and resilience, water security, natural resources management, and water supply and sanitation (WASH).

Naomi has a background in environment and international development. Previously she has worked for SOS Sahel International UK and at ODI on the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN). Naomi holds an MSc in Climate Change and International Development from the University of East Anglia (UK) and a BSc in Natural Sciences from Durham University (UK).

Outputs

A hidden crisis: strengthening the evidence-base on the sustainability of rural groundwater services

Projects - June 2013 to November 2013

This project aims to strenthen the evidence-base on ensuring the sustainability of rural groundwater services.

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Achieving water security: lessons from research in water supply, sanitation and hygiene in Ethiopia

Publication - Books or book chapters - 2 January 2013

Edited by Roger Calow, Eva Ludi and Josephine Tucker

Achieving water security remains an elusive goal across swathes of sub-Saharan Africa. This book asks why, and draws on extensive field research and institutional analysis in Ethiopia to offer insights for policy and practice which are relevant across the continent.

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Mary Muntari collects water from a stream in Kachia, in Kaduna State Nigeria

Climate risk screening for rural water supply in Ethiopia

Projects - December 2012 to April 2013

The aim of this project is to develop a risk assessment methodology that can be used to assess the threat posed by climate change on rural water supplies, and suggest steps to minimise or mitigate such risks.

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Fresh water being poured into a jerrycan. Harshin district, in the eastern Somali region of Ethiopia

Scoping study on social vulnerability in three climate change hotspots for the CARIAA programme

Projects - November 2012 to October 2013

The Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) aims to build the resilience of vulnerable populations and their livelihoods in these three hot spots by supporting collaborative research to inform adaptation policy and practice.

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Infrastructure service goals after 2015

Event - Round-table - 24 May 2012 10:00 - 12:30 (GMT+00)

The roundtable will contribute to the evolving debate about the framework of development goals, which will be developed over the next three years, and will discuss questions specific to infrastructure services.

The roundtable will be an opportunity before Rio +20 to exchange knowledge and insights amongst experienced practitioners and researchers relating to infrastructure and development progress, with a view to identifying options for how infrastructure services could be incorporated in the sustainable development goal framework after 2015.

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