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 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...
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This publication seeks to set aside the economist's vision of urban questions as such, with their emphasis on the laws of the market, and instead opt... Read more...
This manual provides guidelines on planning and implementing water and sanitation projects and programmes with a gender-aware approach. Read more...
The Netherlands Assisted Projects (NAP) form an ongoing programme that comprises the provision of sustainable water and sanitation services in about... Read more...
This workshop was organized to learn about and discuss participatory approaches to research in agriculture and nutrition. The objectives of the... Read more...
This working paper examines household environmental problems in the Accra Metropolitan Area (AMA) of Ghana. Accra is the major industrial growth... Read more...
World Vision International, Ghana Office, has developed two models for effecting collaboration among Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs),... Read more...