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.
Getting citizens and marginalised groups a seat at the table with local government is a core activity of IRC. Read more...
Our strategic systems responses to the pandemic and climate change. Read more...
Under severe conditions of water scarcity, it is vital to keep motorised boreholes pumping across Ethiopia's Somali region. Read more...
Photographs showcasing that Self-supply can change people's lives. Read more...
UK cuts on water, sanitation and hygiene aid betray international pledges to save lives Read more...
Building new partnerships and setting clear goals to leverage investment. Read more...
Governments that work for water, water providers on the frontline and people who raise their voices and stand up. Read more...
Exploring the links between community activism, service providers and Self-supply. Read more...
Climate won the vote for the theme of this year's World Toilet Day. Read more...
The same capacities that help us adapt to COVID-19 can be used to face climate change. 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...
A new guideline seeks to professionalise the management of multi-village water supplies in Ethiopia Read more...
A team representing government and NGOs from Ethiopia joined a visit to Ghana to learn about planning for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for WASH. Read more...
With water quality at source and point of use a major concern, there is renewed interest in Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTSS). Read more...
Climate resilient WASH is about new ways of working across the traditional humanitarian and development sectors. We went to one of the harshest spots in Ethiopia, and surely in the world, to find out more. Read more...
As Ethiopia manages to develop more and more new rural water schemes – springs, wells or boreholes with hand-pumps or engines, piped water – keeping the existing infrastructure running well and safely is a challenge that gets bigger every day. And, despite some encouraging efforts, it's a challenge... Read more...
Self-supply is the term given to families helping themselves through development of their own water supplies. Usually based on wells dug near the home or fields, such water supplies meet a range of domestic and food production needs. The regional government are launching a new programme to support... Read more...
When something is broken, we might shout for help and then, if we are lucky, get it fixed. Our kids try this and sometimes they get a response. Something similar happens in water supply. Read more...
Can Self-supply help combat Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in rural Ethiopia? Read more...
Tigray is a fabulous region to visit. A great base for visiting some of the finest tourism sites in Ethiopia. We were looking for something else: databases. More specifically we went to Tigray to find out how the region is making efforts to monitor the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene... Read more...