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.
The paper describes the Kampung Improvement Programme in Surabaya where the city government worked with low-income communities to identify their... Read more...
Costs associated with community management of water supply and sanitation systems need to be defined at an early stage. Read more...
Ghana has recently decided to shift from centralized maintenance of handpumps to community managed maintenance. Read more...
This book is based on direct field experience in community water supply programmes in Africa. It stresses the partnership between community and... Read more...
The management of land and water resources on a catchment or basin level and the consideration of water as an economic good are the two main... Read more...
This case study aims to highlight the factors which give the WAMMA programme (Tanzania) its present dynamism. Read more...
The objective of this literature review has been to analyze experiences from community-based solid waste management projects and to link them up with... Read more...