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 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...
An effective way of reaching women is through other women who are trained specifically for sanitation promotion and improving water-system... Read more...
This study used a longitudinal survey of more than 3000 mother- infant pairs observed from pregnancy through infancy. The sample is representative of... Read more...
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...
This paper presents findings from a study of household environmental problems in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. It includes the results of... 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 article describes the evolution of WaterAid's programme of work in Nepal. It examines how WaterAid's philosophy of working in partnership with... Read more...
Described is the evolution of the schistosomiasis control programme in Burundi since 1985. A single round of selective population chemotherapy was... Read more...