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.
Inception phase findings of IRCs work to help strengthen and develop national WASH M&E systems with the National WaSH Coordination Office in... Read more...
Presentation on the Water and Sanitation Information System initiative in Timor Leste. Read more...
Poster presented at the 2015 UNC water and health conference. Read more...
Build chains & markets, not toilets. Build on what is already there. Build local systems: diamonds are forever! Read more...
A presentation by Jo Smet, for the IRC seminar, The human factor in WASH change processes: drivers for change among staff of WASH sector... Read more...