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.
Results of an initiative to monitor sustainability factors in towns in Ethiopia. Read more...
Innovation of sanitation master planning within the ONEWASH Plus programme in Ethiopia. Read more...
What are the challenges with Water Point Mapping? and what lessons can be learned from the failures? What about the future of Water Point Mapping?... Read more...
Webinar discussing the state-of-play in national level monitoring of rural water supply, with presentations also of country-led monitoring systems... Read more...
Presentation on the Water and Sanitation Information System initiative in Timor Leste. Read more...
Poster presented at the 2015 UNC water and health conference. Read more...
International consultations on targets and indicators for post-2015 WaSH identified non-household settings as a priority, but not all countries are... Read more...
Build chains & markets, not toilets. Build on what is already there. Build local systems: diamonds are forever! Read more...
This case study examines how a productive element was added to community water supply in Kamba to increase both water and food security. Read more...
The Millennium Water Alliance Ethiopia Programme (MWA-EP) has experimented with the Multiple Use water Services (or MUS) approach to improve water... Read more...
In Ethiopia, the Self-supply approach for rural water supply is expected to fill gaps left by other service delivery models including community water... Read more...
This study examines eight initiatives that are using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to monitor and report on water supply services... Read more...
With over a million handpumps in sub-Saharan Africa and new installations every day, handpump standardisation is still vital for the policy and... Read more...
IRC has been working in Ethiopia for more than a decade, and under IRCs new strategy (2012-16) a country programme has been established. It is one of... Read more...
A presentation by Jo Smet, for the IRC seminar, The human factor in WASH change processes: drivers for change among staff of WASH sector... Read more...
Communal wealth is one of the most important factors affecting rural water services, and household connections are the only technology which can... Read more...
This Qualitative Information System (QIS) monitoring training guide has been prepared for the BRAC WASH II programme in Bangladesh Read more...
A step by step guide on the siting of drilled water wells, from consideration of the user needs up to engaging a drilling contractor to construct the... Read more...