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.
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...
Countries must now set their own realistic national targets and start monitoring them. Read more...
Robust monitoring is needed to track progress towards achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal for water. Read more...
Increasing interest in the Agenda for Change and investments in the systems approach. Read more...
In this blog Patrick Moriarty reflects on Stockholm World Water Week 2014. There is good progress in language (and some tools) around the role of government in delivering services, he argues. But it's still an uphill struggle on who pays for what. Read more...
Triple-S think piece examining the rates of change in coverage of different groups (rural and urban) and in different services (water and sanitation). Read more...
Triple-S country study Ghana. Read more...