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.
We can already draw on the experience from WASH L&D trailblazers Vanuatu and Bangladesh. Read more...
Sustainable, resilient WASH systems for all. Reflections from IRC on World Water Week 2021. Read more...
Being true to #BlackLivesMatter. Report of an IRC Global Talk. Read more...
Report of a Watershed empowering citizens webinar on adjusting your advocacy to COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
The role of civil society in evidence-based advocacy for the human rights to water and sanitation. Report of a WASH Debate. Read more...
An interview with award winning entrepreneur Eelco Osse on zero waste innovation. Read more...
Water For People pilots asset management tool in Rwanda. Read more...
Report of a WASH Debate on climate adaptation. Read more...
Lessons from the Central African Republic and Mali. Report of a WASH debate. Read more...
Is finance a red herring and what is "Rosenboom's law on pilots"? Learn more from an IRC friend for over 30 years. Read more...
Why Water for Good applies a systems approach in the context of complex emergencies. Read more...
We are getting more articulate on how to discuss and demonstrate the importance of the systems approach. Read more...
De-risking investments by building capacities and subsidising interest. Report of an IRC-NWP WASH Debate. Read more...
What is needed to promote behaviour change along the sanitation value chain? Report of a WASH Debate. Read more...
Reflections from the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF) in New York Read more...
How do we make sure that everyone has a basic level of service? Report of an IRC WASH Debate. Read more...
Checking the facts and assumptions about menstrual hygiene in developing countries. Read more...
Achieving sustainable WASH services requires problem-based approaches focusing on a specific watershed or municipality. 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...