Dr Patrick Moriarty is IRC's Chief Executive Officer. A Civil Engineer by first degree and Water Resource Management expert by main experience, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary work on water service delivery and local water governance. Patrick has over twenty years experience of a broad range of issues around water, its management and its use in improving human well-being , predominantly in Africa and South Asia.
Patrick has been with IRC since 2000, and has held several leadership positions; as head of knowledge development; IRC's country director in Ghana; and Director of one of the IRC's major projects -Triple-S.
Patrick's main area of interest is in how IRC can ignite and support sector-wide change that brings improved services (and more sustainable water resource use) to all. He finds the most professional satisfaction working in the messy interface between policy, applied research and practice.
Amplify will provide a monthly update on IRC's WASH systems agenda: stories, analysis and resources, successes and failures. Read more...
A year ago today, on the 22nd of May 2016, we lost our dear friend and colleague Ton Schouten. Read more...
To our shared vision of change Read more...
Ton was a steadfast champion of the cause of sustainability based on respect and support to national actors and institutions. Read more...
As 2014 draws to a close we look back on a mixed and challenging year at IRC. Read more...
IRC's vision and end goal is a simple concept, and one we surely all aspire to: 100% universal access to sustainable water and sanitation services. Read more...
To deliver WASH services that last, the whole system of individuals, organisations, technologies and the institutions that link them needs to work, and work more effectively. Read more...
Delivering good water, sanitation and hygiene services not just to a few people for a while but to everyone forever requires a fundamental shift in the way we all think and work together Read more...
Scale, and associated words and phrases, such as ‘scaling up’, ‘large scale’, ‘appropriate scale’ and ‘economies of scale’ are both central to development discourse and often misunderstood or interpreted in different ways. As scale is at the heart of IRC’s work on services delivery, this note seeks... Read more...