John is Director of IRCs Global Programme and a member of the senior management team. IRC's Global Programme generates and uses evidence - working through partnerships - to drive change at scale in the systems that ultimately deliver water, sanitation and hygiene services at country and local levels.
John is a Briton and European, working from Lodz in Poland where he lives with his family. He has worked for IRC since 2005 and between 2016 and 2019 he was the country director in Ethiopia. He currently represents IRC in the Sanitation and Water for All led Heads of State Initiatives, the executive committee of the Agenda for Change, the Influence team for the One For Alliance, UN-water and the board of the Millennium Water Alliance.
This report summarises the strengths of the decentralised local systems that deliver services in two locations in Ethiopia, describing key actors,... Read more...
While selection of water treatment technologies that meet minimum WHO efficacy recommendations for comprehensive protection against waterborne... Read more...
A call for commitment, transformative thinking, engagement, integration and disaggregated data production. Read more...
Approximately one in four handpumps in sub-Saharan Africa are non-functional at any point in time, which in 2015 was roughly equivalent to 175,000... Read more...
The government's flagship Climate Resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (CR-WASH) initiative focuses on lowland investments in 'resilient' technologies such as deep boreholes and more resilient piped water infrastructure. These seek to displace emergency humanitarian interventions in drought-... Read more...
An overview of policies, strategies and challenges facing the rural drinking water sector from a government perspective. Read more...
This review is the first comprehensive evaluation of the External support programs (ESP) literature. It derives a definition of external support... Read more...
This paper presents reflections on how consumer WASH markets are being developed and the role of different types of actors in the system. Read more...
In the Hai and Siha districts of Tanzania actors not only acknowledge, but actively harness informality to provide access to water to rural... Read more...
This seminar - held at the ILRI campus in Addis Ababa on 25 October 2018 - shared innovative research from the WEEP project on measuring water security in the Ethiopian lowlands. This drew on the study of emotions by the WEEP project team (Cranfield University, Oxfam, IRC WASH, IWMI and the... Read more...
Neither rural sustainability checks, nor urban benchmarking frameworks, are entirely suitable for monitoring small town water services. Read more...
Climate resilient WASH is about new ways of working across the traditional humanitarian and development sectors. We went to one of the harshest spots in Ethiopia, and surely in the world, to find out more. Read more...
As freshwater ecosystems face increasing pressure, landscape approaches are key to water security and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH... Read more...
In order to ensure sustainable WASH in a context of decreasing water security, there is a need to align WASH and IWRM. Read more...
This case study highlights how an organisation can identify potential threats to institutional sustainability common in an extremely low resource... Read more...