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.
This publication aims to be a guide to what has been learned about providing sanitation coverage for both rural and urban low-income communities, and... Read more...
The paper describes the Kampung Improvement Programme in Surabaya where the city government worked with low-income communities to identify their... Read more...
Costs associated with community management of water supply and sanitation systems need to be defined at an early stage. Read more...
Ghana has recently decided to shift from centralized maintenance of handpumps to community managed maintenance. Read more...
This book is based on direct field experience in community water supply programmes in Africa. It stresses the partnership between community and... 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...
This case study aims to highlight the factors which give the WAMMA programme (Tanzania) its present dynamism. Read more...