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.
Presentations from the WASH Learning theme 1 - Delivering Safe WASH Services session of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
This systematic approach to planning suits the Rwandan context and has helped to mobilise funds, but is less effective in emphasising the... Read more...
An approach is developed to assess WASH risks in marginal populations that are poorly understood and served through conventional approaches. Read more...
Ten years after a community-led total sanitation campaign, intervention households continued to have higher rates of ever owning a latrine but... Read more...
An overview of policies, strategies and challenges facing the rural drinking water sector from a government perspective. Read more...
AfricaSan5 just like a five-year old, reflects a sanitation and hygiene sector that is nowhere near mature, but is growing up fast and is full of ambition. Read more...
This paper presents reflections on how consumer WASH markets are being developed and the role of different types of actors in the system. Read more...
Using real life examples to show how Political Economy Analysis (PEA) can be used in practical ways in WASH system planning and promotion. Read more...
The programme cost of CLTS is $30-82 per household targeted in Ghana, and $14-19 in Ethiopia. Local investments range from $8-22 per household... Read more...
The market for rural sanitation in India is anticipated to be worth up to US$ 25 billion, US$ 10-14 billion for toilet construction and US$ 6-9... Read more...
Activities as part of World Water Day 2015 events, 19-20 March 2015, in Addis Ababa Ethiopia Read more...
The second phase of the Millennium Water Alliance's (MWA) Ethiopia Program officially kicked-off at a workshop in Addis Ababa from 30 September to 2 October 2014. Read more...
Working with the Ethiopian government and partners to deliver universal access to WASH services. Read more...