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...
This book aims to provide a state-of-the-art review of practice in the collection of rainwater. 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...
The paper describes the Kampung Improvement Programme in Surabaya where the city government worked with low-income communities to identify their... 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...
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...
The performance of a small-scale water disinfection system which was installed in a hospital in Mexico City in August 1989 was evaluated. Read more...