John Butterworth
Senior Programme Officer, Global Team
John is the Country Director of IRC's Ethiopia Country Programme and he also co-coordinates IRC's Innovation Programme which involves encouraging the development of new IRC themes and activities. He has specific expertise in alternative approaches to rural water supply (self supply, multiple use water services), transparency and accountability (currently supporting development of a WASH sector anti-corruption strategy for the Government of Mozambique), multi-stakeholder approaches to learning and change, and water resources management. He has 15 years practical experience in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He previously worked in the UK with the Natural Resources Institute's (NRI) Livelihoods & Institutions group, in the engineering team at consultants Scott Wilson, was an associate professional officer for the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and a PhD researcher (on catchment management in southern Zimbabwe) at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. His academic background is in geography and hydrology. and he has country experience in Bolivia, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Mozambique Zimbabwe, and the UK. He has served as the coordinator of the Multiple Use Water Services thematic group, on the International Steering Committee of the Water Integrity Network and is a member of the Rural Water Supply Network working group on self supply. John lives in Poland with his young family.
Some publications are:
Welle, K., Schäfer, F., Butterworth, J., & Bostoen, K. 2012. Enabling or Disabling? Reflections on the Ethiopian National WASH Inventory Process. IDS Bulletin 43(2)
Butterworth, J., McIntyre, P. & and da Silva, C. 2011. SWITCH in the city: putting urban water management to the test. IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. [online] Available at http://www.irc.nl/page/66812
Sutton, S., Mamo, E., Butterworth, J and Dimtse, D. 2011. Towards the Ethiopian goal of universal access to rural water: understanding the potential contribution of self supply. Ripple working paper 23 [online] Available at www.rippleethiopia.org
Butterworth, J. & Warner, J. 2010. Editors of themed section on ‘local approaches to IWRM’, Water Alternatives 3(1) [online] Available at www.water-alternatives.org/
Butterworth, J & de la Harpe, J. 2009. Series of three water briefs for the U4 anti-corruption resource centre [online] Available at www.u4.no/themes/natural-resources/main.cfm
Warner, J., Butterworth, J., Wegerich, K., Mora Vallejo, A., Martinez, G., Gouet, C & Visscher, J.T. 2009. Corruption risks in water resources licensing, SIWI report [online] Available at www.watergovernance.org/downloads/Corruption%20Risks%20in%20Water%20Licensing.pdf
González de Asís, M., O’Leary, D., Ljung, P. & Butterworth, J. 2009. Improving transparency, accountability, and integrity in water supply and sanitation: action, learning, experiences. World Bank. [online] Available at http://www.irc.nl/page/50527
Butterworth, J., Keijzer, M., Smout, I. & Hagos, F. 2008. Multiple-Use Water Services (Eds.). Proceedings of an international symposium held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 4-6 November 2008. Multiple Use Water Services (MUS) Group [online] Available at www.musgroup.net
Butterworth, J. 2008. Can integrated water resources management prevent corruption? In Global Corruption Report 2008: Corruption in the Water Sector. Eds. D. Zinnbauer & R. Dobson. Transparency International/ Cambridge University Press.
Van Koppen, B., Giordano, M. and Butterworth, J. (eds) (2007) Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries. Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 5. CAB International, Wallingford, UK.
Butterworth, J., Ducrot, R., Faysse, N. & Janakarajan, S. (Editors) 2007. Peri-Urban Water Conflicts: Supporting dialogue and negotiation. Delft, the Netherlands, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (Technical Paper Series; no 50).
Moriarty, P., Butterworth, J., and Batchelor, C. 2004. Integrated Water Resources Management and the domestic water supply and sanitation sub-sector. IRC Thematic Overview Paper [online] Available at www.irc.nl/content/view/full/10431
Moriarty, P., J. Butterworth, and B. van Koppen, editors. 2004. Beyond domestic: case studies on poverty and productive uses of water at the household level. IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, Delft.
Moriarty, P., & Butterworth, J. 2003. Productive use of domestic water supplies—how water supplies can play a wider role in livelihood improvement and poverty reduction. IRC Thematic Overview Paper, Netherlands [online] Available at www.irc.nl/page.php/256
Butterworth, J., Moriarty, P., and van Koppen, B. (Eds). 2003. Water, poverty and the productive uses of water at the household level. Proceedings of an international symposium held in Johannesburg, South Africa, 21-23 January 2003. Delft, The Netherlands: IRC [online] Available at www.musgroup.net
