Mr. Jon Lane, Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), is stepping down from his post in August 2012, having led the organisation since 2007. During his 5-year directorship, Mr. Lane helped WSSCC to change its its strategic focus to sanitation and hygiene.
Published on: 28/05/2012
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Mr. Jon Lane, Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), is stepping down from his post in August 2012, having led the organisation since 2007.
During his 5-year directorship, Mr. Lane helped WSSCC to change its strategic focus to sanitation and hygiene. This was done in part through the launch of the world’s first global financing instrument for sanitation and hygiene work, the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF). Donors have pledged US$ 75 million to GSF. So far US$ 43.5 million of this amount has been committed to seven country programmes and US$ 4.3 million invested in GSF management and development operations [1].
From 1994 to 1999 Jon Lane was Director of WaterAid, during which time the organisation received the Stockholm Water Prize and he was awarded an OBE.
Mr. Lane will return to his home in Malawi to continue working in sanitation and water for developing countries as a consultant and, together with his wife, to manage the seed company that they founded there.
[1] Global Sanitation Fund progress report 2012. Download report
