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 article takes a look at why past policies have failed and, using World Bank experience, examines which new policies may show promise. The... Read more...
During the first half of 1992 the private sector in Trinidad and Tobago spent TT$ 540 660 on cholera-related advertisements and private announcements... Read more...
Costs associated with community management of water supply and sanitation systems need to be defined at an early stage. Read more...
The inability of cities to provide and maintain adequate infrastructure affects the living and working environment of their populations, especially... 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...
Ghana has recently decided to shift from centralized maintenance of handpumps to community managed maintenance. 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...
As a follow-up to the publication "Community water supply: the handpump option", this report describes the results of handpump research 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 report is a comprehensive overview of Kenya's water sector, based primarily on literature. The National Water Sector Policy has as its objective... Read more...