IRC Associate | Governance, monitoring & systems expert
Joseph Pearce has an M.Sc. in water science and governance from King's College in London. He led WaterAid's performance monitoring programme and developed the Water Point Mapper for WaterAid. He also is the RWSN coordinator for the Water Point Mapping Topic and leads ICT and WASH across the RWSN network.
Joseph has been worked with and for IRC on different contracts: for DFID on the verification of the Payment by Results scheme in Tanzania, as research manager for Making All Voices Count, for WaterAid Australia on national monitoring systems in Timor Leste and PNG and together with John, Alana, Ton, Marieke and Nick and the team in Addis Ababa on designing the national monitoring system for the One WASH National Programme in Ethiopia. Joseph also led the monitoring and ICT topic during the IRC monitoring symposium in Addis Ababa.
With many of the seasonal water sources failing due to poor rains, there has been considerable reliance on a limited number of high-yielding water schemes whose ongoing performance is critical to the drought response. Read more...
Government, donors, and implementers must come together and invest in national and sub-national systems. Read more...
In-house fault-reporting and maintenance systems work better than crowdsourcing models where users are encouraged to report faults. Read more...
Over the last 12 months, WaterAid, Itad and IRC have conducted desk-based research to better understand the factors that facilitate and inhibit the success of ICT-based reporting to improve rural water supply sustainability. Read more...