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.
This working paper is one of a series that explains IRC's emerging praxis for working with and strengthening WASH systems. Read more...
Many current approaches won't work. We must build strong national and local systems dedicated to universality. Read more...
The added value of the SWA Jakarta Sector Ministers' Meeting Read more...
What colour smoke will emerge from this year's COP26? Read more...
Two major development players simultaneously publish papers supporting a more 'systems' based approach. Read more...
Why even social entrepreneurs need strong government. Read more...
Provide leadership and accountability! Read more...
We need more and faster action to achieve and sustain the SDGs. Read more...
This document presents IRC's overarching strategic framework and theory of change for the years 2017 to 2030, together with a set of priority actions... 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...
Booklet providing an explanation of the conceptual background to the EMPOWERS approach to water governance, outlining the changing role of the expert... Read more...