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.
Domestic unavailability of water supply in South Africa often leads to improper use of supplied or other unsafe sources of water. Read more...
Following the massive outbreak of cholera in Peru in the summer of 1991, the Peruvian Ministry of Health conducted a detailed study of the city water... Read more...
The Kenya-Finland Western Water Supply Programme covers four districts located mostly in the Western Province of Kenya, which borders on Uganda. Read more...
The Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE), which is the nodal agency for water and sanitation in Bangladesh, has accelerated sanitation... Read more...
Open defecation poses a health threat for the fishing communities in Trivandrum district, Kerala, India. This paper proposes four alternative... Read more...
The Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) technique is proposed as an aid to the ex-post evaluation of projects in operation. DEA was used to calculate the... Read more...
Fear of a cholera epidemic that could have cost thousands of lives promted officials to think ahead, and plan for the inevitable cholera cases... Read more...