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.
Bolivia has a long history of building rural water and sanitation systems which focus on technical merits, with little consideration given to... Read more...
This book gives a multidisciplinary account of the environmental health hazards threatening children and the range of impacts they can have. Read more...
This paper describes the application of material flux analysis (MFA) to calculate the water balance for the town of Tunja in Colombia. The... Read more...
Providing good quality water through hand pumps or water taps is not a guarantee that a family is drinking uncontaminated water. Many opportunities... Read more...