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.
When families invest their own time and money in securing a water supply we should take notice. Read more...
Working with the Ethiopian government and partners to deliver universal access to WASH services. Read more...
The first of two new short films about Self-supply made by the renowned local film-maker Abraham Haile, working for IRC in association with the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy and the Millennium Water Alliance. This film has a national focus and features the State Minister HE Kebede Gerba, amongst others, making a powerful case for Self-supply.
Read more...How can national governments, NGOs and donors work together to strengthen local government capacity? Read more...
This paper examines the status, role and scope of knowledge management and networking in accelerating sanitation achievements in India and advocates... Read more...
An event held to support regional implementation of Self-supply. Read more...
The 9 th Forum for Learning on Water and Sanitation (FLOWS) held in Adama, Ethiopia on 28 November 2013 focused on various decentralised forms of water supply provision. Read more...
The 9th FLOWS seminar took an in-depth look at two service delivery models in Ethiopia's highly decentralised water supply. Read more...
This briefing note discusses the challenges and emerging issues such as affixing unique water source identifiers, unexpected costs and network... Read more...
Report reviewing five different sustainability assessment tools that are currently in use for programme monitoring of WASH- interventions. Read more...
Progress has been made in recent years with implementing the aid effectiveness framework. Various studies show that the volume of development... Read more...