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.
The first of two new short films about Self-supply made by the renowned local film-maker Abraham Haile, working for IRC in association with the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy and the Millennium Water Alliance. This film has a national focus and features the State Minister HE Kebede Gerba, amongst others, making a powerful case for Self-supply.
Read more...An event held to support regional implementation of Self-supply. Read more...
The 9 th Forum for Learning on Water and Sanitation (FLOWS) held in Adama, Ethiopia on 28 November 2013 focused on various decentralised forms of water supply provision. Read more...
The 9th FLOWS seminar took an in-depth look at two service delivery models in Ethiopia's highly decentralised water supply. Read more...
The town of Butajira was awash with self-supply acceleration tips when 25 participants came together for a three-day training event. Read more...
On 13 September, a Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) was launched in Addis for the WASH sector. Amongst other key innovations it includes Self-supply as a service delivery model. Read more...
What lessons do the past six years of sector collaboration in Ethiopia hold for the future? Read more...
In November 2012 we conducted a series of interviews at national and woreda level on the links, or missing links, between the WASH sector and micro-finance institutes. There is collaboration between micro-finance institutes (MFIs) and the WASH sector, with MFIs supporting the sector to get money to... Read more...
In a new project, three Millennium Water Alliance partners will use additional funding from the The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation to deepen their existing interventions. Read more...
This report on Self-supply aims to help fill some of the gaps in our knowledge about the existing performance of traditional wells, especially water... Read more...
Key participants in Ethiopia's WASH services come together. 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 Ethiopia. Read more...
This short summary of recent progress and current issues was prepared for the Self Supply Working Group based on discussions with the MoWE Self Supply Team and CoWASH project team as a contribution to an RWSN e-conference on self supply. Read more...
The report of a recent workshop on 'Consensus building .. on the provision of micro-finance for water supply, sanitation and hygiene and multiple use services in ethiopia' includes some interesting ideas of insurance products and multiple use systems that deliver productive benefits beyond... Read more...