Director | IRC's Global Programme
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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.
Long-term strategic planning at the district level helps to identify improved service delivery models, system strengthening activities, financing... Read more...
Defining what are the priority research questions to advance water, sanitation and hygiene systems strengthening and where to focus future sector... Read more...
This paper reviews the experiences gained by the SWITCH consortium (of 33 partners) in grappling with stakeholder engagement in urban water... Read more...
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Multi-stakeholder engagement is critical for making progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 'Ensure access to water and sanitation for... Read more...
Building new partnerships and setting clear goals to leverage investment. Read more...
The same capacities that help us adapt to COVID-19 can be used to face climate change. Read more...
This report summarises the strengths of the decentralised local systems that deliver services in two locations in Ethiopia, describing key actors,... Read more...
This paper summarises the different system strengthening initiatives and makes recommendations for joint learning and collaboration. 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...
In this article John Butterworth explains why better access to water and sanitation will pay dividends in helping the most vulnerable people adapt to climate change. He argues that providing water and sanitation services for everyone builds resilience, and should be key part of the climate change... Read more...
The literature review on service delivery concepts looks at how service delivery is defined and implemented in other sectors as health, electricity... Read more...
Guidelines for scenario building, with some examples of water and sanitation scenarios for the city of Accra developed in August 2007 by the SWITCH... Read more...
Initial experiences and lessons learned in applying the learning alliance approach in three urban water management projects. Read more...
