Cor has 39 years of professional experience in WASH information management and information services. Since 2019 he is IRC's Information Manager, specialising in MS Teams. He is editor of IRC's newsletter Amplify and was co-founder and co-editor of the IRC / USAID Sanitation Updates blog, which ran from 2008-2021. From 2016-2020 he was IRC's co-representative in the Board of the online Q&A forum KnowledgePoint.
In 2020, he organised the first ever WASH sector webinar on decolonisation. Next to decolonising WASH knowledge, he has a special interest in transparency and the right to information and ethical funding. Cor has been on short missions for IRC to India, Nepal and Uganda.
In his spare time he enjoys dancing with grandmothers and taking Toby out for walks.
A weeklong event, organised annually by Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE) through the Water Resources Institute (WRI). This year's focus is the centrality of water and environment resources in Sustainable Industrialization for Inclusive-growth, Employment and Wealth Creation. Read more...
The Global Water Integrity Outlook was launched in The Netherlands on 15 April 2016. Read more...
This short video, produced by the WASHTech project, illustrates the challenge of technology in WASH and how the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a systematic and participatory way of assessing and adopting technology innovation at scale, for services that last. Read more...
In 2012, when Indian Minister Jairam Ramesh remarked that “the country needs more toilets than temples”, he was stripped of his additional post as Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation. Not all religious leaders object to linking temples to toilets though. On 25 September 2013, a... Read more...
The Cape Verdian government has approved the creation of two new water and sanitation bodies: the national water and sanitation council CNAS and the national water and sanitation agency ANAS. The reform of the water and sanitation sector is being supported by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation... Read more...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has issued a statement calling on churches, governments and the United Nations to ensure universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene as part of the post-2015 development agenda. The Church is seen to have a vital role in advocating for the full realisation... Read more...
Dr. Peter Morgan has been named the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for his lifelong dedication to improving sanitation and water technologies for the poor. H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden will present the prize to Dr. Morgan at a Royal Award Ceremony during the 2013 World Water Week in... Read more...
The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) and its partners have launched the Replenish Africa Initiative's (RAIN) Multiple Use Water Improvements project in Ethiopia. This one-year project will benefit 73,400 rural citizens, including 22,000 school children living in seven rural woredas (districts)... Read more...
This portal was launched in October 2011 by US Foundation Center as collaborative platform for philanthropic foundations funding water, sanitation and hygiene projects around the world. Read more...
Short video, produced for World Water Day 2013, showing technologies used in the BRAC WASH II programme to provide safe, arsenic-free water. Read more...
This site has a wealth of resources for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practitioners collected by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Although the focus is on WASH resources for emergencies, many of the field tools and resources are also applicable in... Read more...
In association with the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) and the Centre of Excellence for Change Management (CEC), the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre is organising a one-day Roundtable dedicated to the theme Sustainable Drinking Water Services at Scale: Everyone... Read more...
Villa Gualberto Villarroel, better known as Cuchumuela, is the first municipality in Bolivia to achieve 100 percent water coverage. Official recognition for their achievement came from Bolivia’s water and environment ministry MMAyA. It is the story of a successful partnership between local... Read more...
One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently “downgraded”. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but “only” $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity. This recalculation, says WHO, is mainly a result of higher investment cost estimates and the more... Read more...
The majority of the water and sanitation projects funded by the European Union (EU) in six African countries are not sustainable says the EU's spending watchdog. Read more...
The Bangladesh government has reduced its allocation for water and sanitation by around 10 billion taka (US$ 121 million) in the proposed 2012-13 budget. Read more...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Singapore government have agreed to set up a global centre to help developing countries strengthen their public services. Read more...
Ministerial delegations from 40 countries have announced serious commitments to tackle the global water and sanitation crisis. Read more...
Water NGOs are leading the way in promoting new monitoring tools. A Child’s Right has launched an online monitoring system called Proving It and FLOW, a mobile phone tool developed by Water For People, is being widely used in West … Read more...
IRC has developed a training course From Water Infrastructure to Water Services That Last | Putting it into Practice about the practical application of the concepts of a service delivery approach and the life-cycle costs approach for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Read more...