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 report elaborates on the policy approaches and policy options that would facilitate a long-term sustainable water use, building on other... 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 report summarizes some of the most important challenges in water resources management for the 21st century as well as discussing different... Read more...
Without an amicable agreement between the countries of the Middle East to develop and use scarce water resources on an equitable basis, neither a... Read more...
This study updates the findings of a 1994 study on how the concepts of women in development and gender have evolved within the World Bank, and how... Read more...
This publication aims to be a guide to what has been learned about providing sanitation coverage for both rural and urban low-income communities, and... Read more...
This volume builds on the theme of participation in development through communication in meaningful and culturally specific ways. Read more...
This book examines the roots of freshwater pollution - urbanization, industrialization and intensive farming - supported by case studies from the... Read more...
This publication is the result of a survey of eighty-nine micro-enterprises and cooperatives in seven countries in Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil,... Read more...
Many of the worst features of urban poverty in the Third World are environmental: poor access to safe water, unsanitary conditions, smoky kitchens,... Read more...
The dominant water resources issues and the principles and practices proven effective in dealing with the issues have been placed in four categories... Read more...
The 1992 UNCED Earth Summit concluded that the environmental problems of the world's growing population need attention; however, the 1993 Ford... Read more...
Over the last 15 years, Sweden has contributed about SEK 500 million for relief and rehabilitation to Cambodia. This report evaluates Swedish... Read more...
This paper seeks to extend the understanding of the urban environmental agenda and to provide a method for setting local priorities and formulating... Read more...