Dr. John Butterworth

John Butterworth is the Ethiopia Country Director of IRC, the think-and-do tank that believes in systems building to improve WASH services. John collaborates with the Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership team led by CU-Boulder, coordinating activities in Ethiopia and Uganda to test the potential of participatory local systems building to find new solutions to the challenge of sustaining rural water services. John has a background in hydrological monitoring and research on catchment management before getting stuck into the WASH sector.