IRC Associate
Freelance writer, journalist, editor, consultant and trainer. Peter researches, writes and edits mainly on water and sanitation, health and development. He is has been acting as consultant to the BRAC WASH project in Bangladesh supporting their communications work and providing training, and was for five years consultant to IRC's WASHCost project. Over the past years, Peter has been supporting the IRC Ghana team in communicating their district based work.
This book provides readers with a glimpse into the realities of managing large-scale initiatives with ambitious goals. It reveals that through... Read more...
The costs and benefits of hygiene promotion are difficult to measure. WASHCost and its partners compared cost data of different interventions in Ghana, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and India to come to an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of interventions.
Read more...This study aimed to get an overview over the income and expenditure flows in the Ugandan rural water and sanitation sector, with a special focus on... Read more...
This paper concludes that there is chronic underfunding of rural water services, to meet the costs required to provide and sustain a basic level of... Read more...
This paper offers a methodological framework to assess the cost effectiveness of hygiene interventions based on preliminary test observations in... Read more...
Briefing note with key findings on the comparison of the financial costs of a range of traditional and improved latrines and the quality of service... Read more...
Briefing note describing the life-cycle costs approach and why it was developed. Read more...
Why do families build toilets? If the family tradition for many generations has been to defecate in the open – using local woods or accepted sites, then what is the incentive to make a break and opt for a toilet instead? Read more...