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.
Sanitation is chronically underfunded, perhaps that’s because we’re not asking for money in the right way or from the right source. Read more...
The question is not if, but how they should be involved. Read more...
Why networking and collective action are essential to systems change. Read more...
What it will take to bring water and sanitation to everyone. Read more...
This working paper sets out the thinking behind IRC's use of learning alliances, offers practical guidance on how to adopt the approach and build a... Read more...
How shifting to a holistic systems strengthening approach can lead to more resilient and sustainable services for all. Read more...
This working paper is one of a series that explains IRC's emerging praxis for working with and strengthening WASH systems. Read more...
World Toilet Day should really be World Sanitation Systems Day! Read more...
"IRC is having real impact in the WASH sector internationally and especially in its six focus countries". Read more...
The Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting will focus squarely on finance. Read more...
What colour smoke will emerge from this year's COP26? Read more...
20 consortia advance to next round of the Power of Voices investment programme Read more...
Providing water and sanitation services to people who live in rural areas or informal settlements or simply aren’t connected to pipes is a complex business. Needlessly so. Social distancing? Queuing for water in Sahel Region of Burkina Faso. Photo: IRC Burkina Faso Read more...
Two major development players simultaneously publish papers supporting a more 'systems' based approach. Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
Listen to IRC's Patrick Moriarty keynote speech delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12 March 2019. Read more...
Two new UN reports show where we are and where it is we want to get to; now it's time to step up national leadership. Read more...
Private money can only be attracted where government leads and strong systems exist. Read more...
Provide leadership and accountability! Read more...
Countries must now set their own realistic national targets and start monitoring them. Read more...