patrickmoriarty

Profile: Currently head of business development at IRC and leader of IRC's International Programme. Also project director of IRC's Triple-S project. I'm a civil engineer by background, with most of my working life over the last twenty years dedicated to a broad range of issues around the water resource management and water service delivery nexus. Recently returned to Europe after nearly four years in Ghana establishing IRC's country office there and helping to coordinate a broad range of activities - primarily in rural water service delivery and WASH sector knowledge management. My main area of interest is in how sector wide change processes can be ignited and supported to bring improved services (and more sustainalbe resource use) to a country's citizens. I find the most professional satisfaction working in the messy interface between policy, applied research and practice.

Posts by Patrick Moriarty:

• A bit short of a miracle …
• Experimenting with water service delivery
• Mid term assessment blues
• Standardised hand pumps – a good thing?
• The biggest myth of all – rural people want clean drinking water?
• Water services in the danger zone
• Mr Phiri’s story – bypassing local government doesn’t lead to lasting services
• Handpump functionality: what is the threshold for area mechanics?