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.
A diesel or electrically-powered pump provides a step up the technology ladder for rural households with a family well. The main reason for investing is often to irrigate crops, but the water uses and benefits are multiple. Read more...
Sand dams can provide sufficient water for domestic and productive uses even in some very dry environments. But the implementation and scaling-up challenges should not be overlooked. Read more...
The second of two short films on Self-supply by Abraham Hailu focuses on the regional level, taking the example of SNNPR. This is one of the regions moving ahead with implementation of the Self-supply acceleration approach.
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The first of two new short films about Self-supply made by the renowned local film-maker Abraham Haile, working for IRC in association with the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy and the Millennium Water Alliance. This film has a national focus and features the State Minister HE Kebede Gerba, amongst others, making a powerful case for Self-supply.
Read more...An event held to support regional implementation of Self-supply. Read more...
The 9th FLOWS seminar took an in-depth look at two service delivery models in Ethiopia's highly decentralised water supply. Read more...
The town of Butajira was awash with self-supply acceleration tips when 25 participants came together for a three-day training event. Read more...
In November 2012 we conducted a series of interviews at national and woreda level on the links, or missing links, between the WASH sector and micro-finance institutes. There is collaboration between micro-finance institutes (MFIs) and the WASH sector, with MFIs supporting the sector to get money to... Read more...
In a new project, three Millennium Water Alliance partners will use additional funding from the The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation to deepen their existing interventions. Read more...