IRC Associate
Freelance writer, journalist, editor, consultant and trainer. Peter researches, writes and edits mainly on water and sanitation, health and development. He is has been acting as consultant to the BRAC WASH project in Bangladesh supporting their communications work and providing training, and was for five years consultant to IRC's WASHCost project. Over the past years, Peter has been supporting the IRC Ghana team in communicating their district based work.
IRC and WASH specialists are working hard to ensure that the rural population is not abandoned in this time of crisis. Read more...
In Asutifi North district in Ghana, the District Assembly is making a bold attempt to achieve district-wide full coverage by 2030. Read more...
New book tells how partnerships, district planning and learning alliances achieve impact at community level in Ghana. Read more...
Priceless! tells the story of the five year WASHCost project to disentangle the costs of water, sanitation and hygiene. The project has influenced international discourse about WASH services and how costs relate to quality and sustainability, and has spun off assets such as the WASHCost Share tool... Read more...
"We can see that what was happening six or seven thousand years ago is still affecting what is happening in the subsurface from a salinity point of view. If you want to know what is happening now, you have to go back in time and try to understand how the groundwater system works," says Oude Essink Read more...
The business case for sanitation in developing countries is testified by the thousands of small scale entrepreneurs springing up to tackle problems of open defecation and process faecal waste and urine. Will these businesses be profitable and sustainable? Read more...