Personal Profile
Eng. Samuel BITON is a professional Civil Engineer with more than 15 years’ experience with key emphasis on infrastructure, operational efficiency, program management, strategic management, financial management and integrated human resource management. Samuel has expertise in planning, studies and designs, managing and coordinating programs and/or projects in the water, sanitation and environment sector, transportation engineering, structural engineering and project management. His experience in these fields cover all types of services: development of plans, programs, budgets and operational strategies; formulating and implementing M&E mechanisms; developing key performance indicators; preparation of reports; works supervision; and strategic and master plans.
Samuel holds MSc. in Municipal Water and Infrastructure from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands; Master of Business Administration and BSc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Malawi. Samuel has been involved in Government, World Bank, ADB, EIB, UNICEF, World Vision and other numerous donor funded projects. He has worked on projects in Malawi, Zambia and Netherlands.
Company Profile
Central Region Water Board was created under the Water Works Act No. 17, 1995 with a mandate to provide water supply and waterborne sanitation services to all towns and market centres in the Central Region of Malawi except for Lilongwe City. The mission of the Board is to “develop, operate, maintain and provide reliable water and water-borne sanitation services in an efficient, effective and sustainable manner in the interest of stakeholders”. The Board has twenty-three (23) schemes geographically spread in the Central Region and the schemes are grouped into four (4) administrative zones of Dedza, Kasungu, Salima, and Mponela.