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.
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...
The paper provides brief details of a water diversion project in Tamil Nadu, India. Through the project, the supply in urban centres will improve... 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...
This volume builds on the theme of participation in development through communication in meaningful and culturally specific ways. Read more...
This article takes a look at why past policies have failed and, using World Bank experience, examines which new policies may show promise. The... Read more...
Over the last 20 years, tremendous progress has been made in providing potable water and sanitation services to the poor in developing countries. Read more...
The inability of cities to provide and maintain adequate infrastructure affects the living and working environment of their populations, especially... 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...