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.
A presentation by Jo Smet, for the IRC seminar, The human factor in WASH change processes: drivers for change among staff of WASH sector... 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...
A step by step guide on the siting of drilled water wells, from consideration of the user needs up to engaging a drilling contractor to construct the... Read more...
This case study looks at the implementation of asset management in two municipalities of South Africa. Read more...
As part of the World Water Day 2015 events organised in Addis Ababa, the My Water, My Business events brought attention to the efforts of households to improve their own water supplies. This included the 'Self-supply Seminar: promoting local initiative and business to help all Ethiopian's access safe water supplies' on 20 March 2015 and a parallel fair where Ethiopian enterprises showcased their low-cost products. This short film provides a brief summary of the event and debates including a call to support Ethiopia's efforts in Self-supply acceleration from HE Kebebe Gerba, State Minister.
Read more...This paper describes how the ASTRA tool can help identify potentially appropriate technical solutions fro the delivery of arsenic and saline-free... Read more...
What is the best technical solution to deal with arsenic-polluted and saline water in Bangladesh? When is it better to treat the water or to choose... Read more...
Triple-S has successfully promoted sustainability and the Service Delivery Approach (SDA) at the international level and in target countries. The... Read more...
Sustainability instruments contribute to better water, sanitation of hygiene (WASH) projects but still face shortcomings. Read more...
This blog post was prepared by Sally Sutton - previously coordinator of the Rural Water Supply Network flagship theme on Self-supply - who returned to Ethiopia in March 2015 to participate in the My Water, My Business events linked to the World Water Day celebrations. Sally has earlier supported... Read more...
Drawing on data on from 54 low- and middle-income countries on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in health care facilities, the report... Read more...
Activities as part of World Water Day 2015 events, 19-20 March 2015, in Addis Ababa Ethiopia Read more...
Systematic planning, inventory updates, and financial forecasting for assets carried out, and asset ownership clearly defined. Read more...
The UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council formally recognised the human right to water and sanitation in 2010. This guidance provides... Read more...
This report presents results of the baseline assessment of the status of service levels, service providers and support functions, in East Gonja... Read more...
The focus is on salt water intrusion in coastal groundwater systems, as groundwater is the main resource of drinking water and irrigation water for... Read more...
While the importance of hygiene is increasingly being recognized, far less consideration has been given to the role of the complete WASH package in... Read more...