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.
What is needed to promote behaviour change along the sanitation value chain? Report of a WASH Debate. Read more...
What we learnt from using the Faecal Waste Flow Calculator in India. Read more...
Indian sanitation entrepreneur Mayank Midha one year later. Read more...
The latest water and sanitation innovations: approaches, technologies and financing instruments. Read more...
How a story about an Indian sanitation entrepreneur became a hit. Read more...
An interview with sanitation entrepreneur Mayank Midha. Read more...
An interview with Dr. Ritesh Kumar of Wetlands International South Asia. Read more...
A growing number of companies promise safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all their employees. Read more...
Experts discuss integrated approaches at IRC event in The Hague. Read more...
How does India's new large-scale sanitation monitoring effort compare with similar initiatives in Bangladesh and Indonesia? Read more...
What do we need to make a business out of sanitation. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme has helped establish 80,000 Village WASH Committees, whose members are so engaged they're even going into politics. Read more...
A sanitation project's work is not finished with the installation of a pit latrine. What happens a year or two later, when the latrine is full? Read more...
BRAC's WASH activities reach more than 30 million people, and the Village WASH Committee (VWC) plays a crucial role. Read more...
Mrs Rasheda Sahab, a 38-year old widow, has become a successful sanitation entrepreneur, thanks to BRAC's microcredit programme. Read more...
A sub-district chairman and a schoolteacher/imam in Chittagong, Bangladesh talk to Dick de Jong about their roles in WASH delivery. Read more...
Faecal sludge from millions of pit latrines around the world is being dumped indiscriminately. What can be done to stop this new sanitation challenge? Read more...
Joep Verhagen quizzes BRAC's senior director and the BRAC WASH programme director about a range of WASH issues and innovations. Read more...
Practical tools for finance mechanisms feature in a new guide. Read more...
Huge access gains but a limited impact on health and sustainability are the mixed results of Dutch aid in a two-decade aid programme. Read more...