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.
Using information and communication technologies (ICTs) can make rural water supply more efficient, but this only works well when ICT design takes... Read more...
There are six methodological stages for selecting indicators for WaSH: define the purpose and scope; select a conceptual framework; search for... Read more...
This is the final report from the Action Research for Learning programme (2013–2015). Read more...
In many countries, the progress is falling well short of the maximum achievable level and does not appear to be correlated with national social and... Read more...
The Multi-Stakeholder Forum - popularly know as the MSF - is the key annual WaSH sector event in Ethiopia. At the end of 2015, the One WaSH National Program was again in the spotlight. Read more...
Inception phase findings of IRCs work to help strengthen and develop national WASH M&E systems with the National WaSH Coordination Office in... Read more...
Water committees and handpump mechanics ensure safe and reliable services in Western Uganda. A story about action learning supported by the Dutch... Read more...
The results of a sustainability check, monitoring service delivery in towns, satellite villages and institutions that are targeted in the ONEWASH... Read more...
Results of an initiative to monitor sustainability factors in towns 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...
International consultations on targets and indicators for post-2015 WaSH identified non-household settings as a priority, but not all countries are... Read more...
Tigray is a fabulous region to visit. A great base for visiting some of the finest tourism sites in Ethiopia. We were looking for something else: databases. More specifically we went to Tigray to find out how the region is making efforts to monitor the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene... 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...
On the 23 April 2015, a technical discussion was held at the Jupiter hotel in Addis Ababa to debate the findings of a study "Private Sector Landscape for WASH in Ethiopia – Bottlenecks and opportunities" commissioned by UNICEF and undertaken by IRC within the scope of the DFID-funded One WASH Plus... 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...