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.
Strengthening the monitoring of water services to improve water service delivery. Read more...
Testing approaches to strengthen the sustainability and performance of WASH service delivery systems. Read more...
In Ethiopia, prioritising access to groundwater, supported by responsive and proactive operation and maintenance, increases rural water supply... Read more...
Using real life examples to show how Political Economy Analysis (PEA) can be used in practical ways in WASH system planning and promotion. Read more...
Climate resilient WASH is about new ways of working across the traditional humanitarian and development sectors. We went to one of the harshest spots in Ethiopia, and surely in the world, to find out more. Read more...
Lessons learned from SNV projects in Nepal and Tanzania on accountability in rural water supply. Read more...
Models where a service provider is committed to responsiveness and designs an in-house fault-reporting and maintenance system show greater... Read more...
Factors influencing and inhibiting the success of reporting, processing and acting on the results of data. 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...
Communal wealth is one of the most important factors affecting rural water services, and household connections are the only technology which can... Read more...
Sustainable groundwater use is more likely in Indian villages if farmers, other village community members and NGOs work together with researchers and... Read more...
Handpump sustainability is enhanced by household members' involvement in management-related decisions, but is compromised when households are... Read more...
How can national governments, NGOs and donors work together to strengthen local government capacity? Read more...
A paper prepared for the IRC water sanitation symposium held 9-11 April 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Read more...
Triple-S country study South Africa. Read more...
Triple-S country study Ghana. Read more...
Triple-S country study Ethiopia. Read more...