John is co-director of IRCs Global Programme, lead of the Research and Learning staffing group within IRCs Change Hub and a member of the management team. The Change Hub supports IRCs focus country programmes to deliver innovative and impactful activities that strengthen systems and improve services, facilitates planning monitoring, analysis and learning organisation-wide, and uses evidence and our influencing skills to drive change at regional and global 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 has current roles in the executive committees of the Rural Water Supply Network and the Agenda for Change, and is the Influencing lead for the Destination 2030 Alliance.
The Interface Forestry Project (IFP) in Tamil Nadu is a multicomponent project whose aim is the rehabilitation of a degraded environment by... Read more...
Over the last 20 years, tremendous progress has been made in providing potable water and sanitation services to the poor in developing countries. Read more...
This book examines the roots of freshwater pollution - urbanization, industrialization and intensive farming - supported by case studies from the... Read more...
The dominant water resources issues and the principles and practices proven effective in dealing with the issues have been placed in four categories... Read more...
The failure to treat water as a scarce resource is, according to the author, one of the main causes of today's international water crisis. Demand... Read more...
The management of land and water resources on a catchment or basin level and the consideration of water as an economic good are the two main... Read more...