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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.
Black Lives Matter. IRC and its staff has been moved and inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement that started in the US and has spread globally. The extraordinary articulation of injustice, demand for action and self-organisation of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the death of... Read more...
20 consortia advance to next round of the Power of Voices investment programme Read more...
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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...
Why is an organisation that believes in systems strengthening joining #GivingTuesday? Because effective philanthropy can be a force for lasting change. 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...
How a blending of service delivery models and finance within a district may hold the solution to financing safe water supplies for everyone. Read more...
Keynote presentation on why networking and collective action are essential to systems change Read more...
Bringing effective and decisive political leadership to bear on WASH requires that we expose the system; making it visible and actionable to those with power. IRC's new campaign aims to do just that. Read more...
Patrick Moriarty, CEO of IRC, discusses why and how the systems strengthening approach was developed. Read more...
Lean government needs a lean private sector to deliver safe water and sanitation to everyone. Both are part of an effective public system. Read more...
Why even social entrepreneurs need strong government. Read more...
With the year drawing rapidly to a close (already?!), time to reflect briefly on what has kept IRC busy this year. Read more...
Let's focus on who pays for what all along the sanitation service delivery chain. Read more...
Private money can only be attracted where government leads and strong systems exist. Read more...
Provide leadership and accountability! Read more...
With Propeller we continue our campaign series to raise awareness about the importance of systems building and thinking in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Read more...
