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.
A country that lifts its people out of poverty needs to connect the systems for financing health, climate and social justice, with water, sanitation and hygiene Read more...
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The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
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...
Keynote presentation on why networking and collective action are essential to systems change Read more...
Provide leadership and accountability! Read more...
We need more and faster action to achieve and sustain the SDGs. Read more...
The SDGs bring a new sense of urgency, focus and realisation of the great challenge ahead. Read more...
This document presents IRC's overarching strategic framework and theory of change for the years 2017 to 2030, together with a set of priority actions... Read more...
Over the coming years, IRC will work to support partner districts to bring sustainable WASH services to everyone: at least one million people. Read more...
But ... to achieve Goal 6 more urgency is needed in sector reform and systems building. Read more...
Podcast featuring Patrick Moriarty and Stef Smits, who discuss taking on a systems approach in the WASH sector – including real-life examples from... Read more...
An analysis of 11 global and regional trends in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector. Read more...
Only by understanding our place in the wider complex systems that deliver services will we be able to overcome the long-standing challenges in the... Read more...
We all know that "he who pays the piper calls the tune" - but what if the tune is the wrong one for the times? Can pipers push for new tunes? IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty thinks so. Read more...
IRC's CEO explains why we're counting down five years instead of 15 - five years to get going on meaningful change Read more...
IRC's Chief Executive Patrick Moriarty reflects on the highlights from the annual water conference in Stockholm. Read more...