John is co-director of IRCs Global Programme, lead of the Research and Learning staffing group within IRCs Change Hub and a member of the management team. The Change Hub supports IRCs focus country programmes to deliver innovative and impactful activities that strengthen systems and improve services, facilitates planning monitoring, analysis and learning organisation-wide, and uses evidence and our influencing skills to drive change at regional and global 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 has current roles in the executive committees of the Rural Water Supply Network and the Agenda for Change, and is the Influencing lead for the Destination 2030 Alliance.
As a result of the the iWET project, functionality in some districts has risen from 80% to 95%, scheme downtime has been reduced from 30 days to... Read more...
Strengthening the monitoring of water services to improve water service delivery. Read more...
Quels sont les principaux goulots d'étranglement des systèmes à résoudre pour parvenir à un accès universel aux services WASH d'ici 2030. Read more...
What key systems bottlenecks need to be addressed to achieve universal access to WASH services by 2030. Read more...
An overview of policies, strategies and challenges facing the rural drinking water sector from a government perspective. Read more...
The paper provides background on the concept of complex systems, its applicability to WASH, and some proposed approaches for practitioners to use... Read more...
This paper presents reflections on how consumer WASH markets are being developed and the role of different types of actors in the system. Read more...
This paper addresses capacity building challenges for urban sanitation in India, with specific focus on Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM). Read more...
The paper sets out the processes followed to establish WASH Learning Alliances in Ethiopia, examines some of the associated risks and constraints,... Read more...
This paper summarises the different system strengthening initiatives and makes recommendations for joint learning and collaboration. Read more...
Using real life examples to show how Political Economy Analysis (PEA) can be used in practical ways in WASH system planning and promotion. Read more...
While implementation of the Self-supply approach in Ethiopia is not yet proven, t he expectations placed on this service model are huge. Nevertheless... Read more...
This paper describes how the ASTRA tool can help identify potentially appropriate technical solutions fro the delivery of arsenic and saline-free... Read more...
Background note to the 3rd IRC event on the limits of aid and the future of trade and presentations of the Keynote presentations by DGIS, Simavi and... Read more...
Background paper for the Symposium on Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation: Strengthening capacity for local governance Read more...