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...
Women from Odisha, India, demand greater role in decision making and hygiene promotion. Read more...
Landmark decision the result of a two-year-long digital campaign by 2019 Ton Schouten Award winner Mayuri Bhattacharjee Read more...
What is needed to promote behaviour change along the sanitation value chain? Report of a WASH Debate. Read more...
Raising awareness about the socioeconomic, health and environmental context: a WASH Talk podcast. Read more...
Checking the facts and assumptions about menstrual hygiene in developing countries. Read more...
A BRAC/IRC case study shows that tea stalls in Bangladesh are ideal to teach men about hygiene. Read more...
Join us at SACOSAN-VI to talk about sharing data for decision making on WASH in Schools Read more...
Communities in Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda and Bangladesh are en route to better health with the help of local NGOs. Read more...
How can you get 110 million children to wash their hands before meals? India has the answer. Read more...
A growing number of companies promise safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all their employees. Read more...
Dutch Olympic sailor Carolijn Brouwer will launch a "Menstrual Hygiene Call to Action" at an event in Scheveningen, The Hague on 19 June 2015. Read more...
Want to make sure that girls don't miss classes during menstruation? Teach them to make and wash their own reusable sanitary pads. Read more...
On May 5th each year the World Health Organization calls on health workers to wash their hands. Read more...
UNICEF publication provides first global overview of water and sanitation in primary schools. Read more...
A third of health care facilities in the developing world don't even have water and soap for handwashing. A shameful situation that can be overcome with simple solutions and global action. Read more...
WHO is launching a global plan of action to improve access to WASH at all health care facilities. This kind of intersectoral collaboration is set to become a major theme in the post-2015 development agenda. Read more...
On 12 August 2014, the global campaign Girl Rising organised a Twitter chat on why #WASHmatters for girls' education. Menstrual hygiene was one of the discussion topics. Read more...