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 study updates the findings of a 1994 study on how the concepts of women in development and gender have evolved within the World Bank, and how... Read more...
The paper provides brief details of a water diversion project in Tamil Nadu, India. Through the project, the supply in urban centres will improve... Read more...
The Interface Forestry Project (IFP) in Tamil Nadu is a multicomponent project whose aim is the rehabilitation of a degraded environment by... Read more...
This volume builds on the theme of participation in development through communication in meaningful and culturally specific ways. Read more...
Using data from a sample of 69 households in Ukunda village, Kenya, the traditional approach to the modeling of water demand for villages in... Read more...
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...
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...
The inability of cities to provide and maintain adequate infrastructure affects the living and working environment of their populations, especially... Read more...
The dominant water resources issues and the principles and practices proven effective in dealing with the issues have been placed in four categories... Read more...