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.
Neither rural sustainability checks, nor urban benchmarking frameworks, are entirely suitable for monitoring small town water services. Read more...
This paper presents findings on water and sanitation service levels from 16 small and medium towns in four regions of Ethiopia. Read more...
This publication has been produced by IRC as part of its independent monitoring and knowledge management services to the ONEWASH Plus programme. The... Read more...
Physical works are progressing well in most small towns. Major challenges are water sources in Abomsa, and acquisition of land for sludge drying beds... Read more...
The latest experiences in monitoring for sustainability, and next steps for the wider use of relevant tools within the Consolidated WaSH Account (CWA... Read more...
Data was collected on household income, diarrhoeal disease occurrence, water service provision, and sanitation and hygiene services and practices at... Read more...
The report provides specific recommendations for woreda-level planning of Self-supply acceleration activities, market and business development, and... Read more...
Inception phase findings of IRCs work to help strengthen and develop national WASH M&E systems with the National WaSH Coordination Office in... Read more...
Poster presented at the 2015 UNC water and health conference. Read more...
This case study examines how a productive element was added to community water supply in Kamba to increase both water and food security. Read more...
The Millennium Water Alliance Ethiopia Programme (MWA-EP) has experimented with the Multiple Use water Services (or MUS) approach to improve water... Read more...
In Ethiopia, the Self-supply approach for rural water supply is expected to fill gaps left by other service delivery models including community water... Read more...
IRC has been working in Ethiopia for more than a decade, and under IRCs new strategy (2012-16) a country programme has been established. It is one of... Read more...
Sector approaches to combating corruption have gained momentum in recent years, with increased awareness that generic anti-corruption initiatives are... Read more...