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.
WASH system strengthening is climate action and WASH must be a core component of climate financing and adaptation strategies. Read more...
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Sustainable groundwater use is more likely in Indian villages if farmers, other village community members and NGOs work together with researchers and... Read more...
This book explores the issues of disaster and vulnerability from a South Asian standpoint. The issues are presented in the form of case studies and... Read more...
The Interface Forestry Project (IFP) in Tamil Nadu is a multicomponent project whose aim is the rehabilitation of a degraded environment by... Read more...
The inability of cities to provide and maintain adequate infrastructure affects the living and working environment of their populations, especially... Read more...
In general, women still have limited opportunities to influence the design and operation of domestic water supply projects for their productive uses... Read more...
This study is based on a project that began as an attempt to evaluate the implications of groundwater overabstraction in China and India, key... Read more...