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.
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