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.
Being true to #BlackLivesMatter. Report of an IRC Global Talk. 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...
Water For People pilots asset management tool in Rwanda. Read more...
Lessons from the Central African Republic and Mali. Report of a WASH debate. Read more...
Why Water for Good applies a systems approach in the context of complex emergencies. Read more...
Lessons learned from the Safe Water Phase 2 initiative (2015-2018): a WASH Talk podcast. Read more...
IRC helps AMCOW develop a new process to monitor the N'gor declaration Read more...
Learn about our new programme Watershed, sector learning and country-led monitoring. Read more...
Data is scarce, but allocations to sanitation appear far below the agreed 0.5% of GDP. Read more...
Are government-led and private sector approaches mutually exclusive? Read more...
How can a community-based approach help ensure sustainable urban sanitation services? Read more...
Want to know more about sanitation monitoring, influencing and learning in Africa? Read more...
The Tanzanian Ministry of Water has adopted the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) to help make water and sanitation services sustainable. Tanzania is now the seventh country to use this innovative tool, which was developed by the IRC-led WASHTech project. 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...
Organised by : African Water Association (AfWA) and SODECI s.a. Theme : Mobilizing Resources and Governance of Water and Sanitation in Africa Sub-Themes : Integrated Management of Water Resources and Climate Change Capacity Building for improved Water and Sanitation Services Advances in Water and... Read more...
Providing toilets to the poorest may be "dear to the hearts of many non-profits, aid agencies and governments" but if you want to involve business you have to start with the better-off families first. Read more...
Mrs Rasheda Sahab, a 38-year old widow, has become a successful sanitation entrepreneur, thanks to BRAC's microcredit programme. Read more...
Liberia will need to bridge a US$ 450 million funding gap to achieve the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) targets that it set for itself in 2017. Read more...
The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) has been awarded a US$ 2 million grant [1] from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help countries build capacities for sanitation policy development, monitoring and advocacy. Read more...
Practical tools for finance mechanisms feature in a new guide. Read more...