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.
Policy recommendations for national government and the state government of Odisha. Read more...
Release of 4 study reports on Hand hygiene and Discussion on strengthening the enabling environment for Hand hygiene, Read more...
Recommendations for national, state and district level government. Read more...
Last in a series of three webinars of organised on the occasion of Global Handwashing Day 2020. Please join on 5 November 2020 at 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm IST (10:30-12:00 CET). Read more...
How can you get 110 million children to wash their hands before meals? India has the answer. Read more...
On May 5th each year the World Health Organization calls on health workers to wash their hands. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh released a handwashing promotion video on 5 May 2013 to coincide with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual global campaign to promote better hand hygiene in health care. 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...
Millions of people across the globe celebrated the 4th annual Global Handwashing Day on 15 October 2011, emphasising the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective, simple, and affordable way to prevent disease. Read more...
Schools that promote a healthy learning environment for pupils ensure that there is access to water and sanitation facilities and that teachers engage pupils frequently on discussions about health. In these schools the number of children who washed hands frequently increased from six percent to... Read more...
Maintained by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), this web page provides an online reference, including a searchable database, on enabling technologies for handwashing with soap for programme managers. Read more...