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.
This discussion paper was prepared as a basis for the cooperation between Kenya and Finland. It is based on a literature and documentation review, as... Read more...
This report examines the issues related to the operation and maintenance (O&M) and cost recovery in rural water supply and sanitation programmes... Read more...
The question of the role of the state in community participation is examined in detail in this book. It asks whether state involvement is beneficial... Read more...
This report seeks to establish markers to determine whether donors are taking their fair share of the burden to meet the water and sanitation target... Read more...