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.
Despite the high level of exposure to the COVID-19 virus among HCWs in the treatment centers, only 14.0% were at high risk of COVID-19 virus... Read more...
A systems approach requires us to know the importance of political buy-in and strong leadership. Read more...
A WASH system is made up of different people and organisations, so it's important that they all work well together. Read more...
Achieving the sustainable development goal for water and sanitation is hard to imagine. The first step is to work out the steps needed to get there. Read more...
In Asutifi North district in Ghana, the District Assembly is making a bold attempt to achieve district-wide full coverage by 2030. Read more...
Keynote speech by Peter Laugharn at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019 on the importance of changing the way we do business... Read more...
This paper presents IRC Ghana's experience of acting as a 'hub' to support collective action in the Asutifi North District of Ghana. Read more...
Two new videos show how a district-wide partnership is transforming water coverage and lives. Read more...
It is never too early to learn good practice that may be lifesaving. Read more...
Booklet providing a baseline picture in Asutifi North, before embarking on an initiative to give every person in the district access to sustainable... Read more...
The challenge for ANAM in Ghana's Asutifi North Read more...
In the peri-urban area of Wamahinso women almost fight for water as they queue for hours in the morning only for the supply to run dry before they can fill their containers. "Sometimes it is three days before we can bathe," one woman says. Ama Ampomah describes walking four and half miles (7... Read more...
In rural Agravi, things are even worse. After pumps failed and supplies dried up women lower buckets into an open well and pull them up by hand. The well is vulnerable to pollution and to animals falling in. A pump provided by the District Authority in 2012 failed within a week while another... Read more...
Goamu Asamang community has three wells and pumps for 1,800 people and none of them work well. Children miss schooling because they are helping the family collect water or waiting for parents to return from the pump. There has been little maintenance on facilities installed in 1985, 2003 and 2012... Read more...
In Tawiahkrom the main water supply is an open well where women pull up water in buckets. For most women it means an uphill walk back home carrying water. Men also collect water and carry it home on the back of bicycles. Sanitation has failed and men and women share the same public latrine. In... Read more...
Without an improved asset maintenance, system it is likely that rural water systems in Ghana will continue to provide unsustainable services. Read more...
New book tells how partnerships, district planning and learning alliances achieve impact at community level in Ghana. Read more...