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.
A drought in southwest China has left over two million people short of drinking water, the government said. Guizhou province has been under the grip of a drought since early July 2011. Rainfall last month was 70 percent less than average, according to new agency Xinhua. The drought has affected... Read more...
We earlier reported on the vote of Berlin’s citizens demanding the disclosure of contracts related to the partial privatization of the city’s water supply utility. A referendum on this issue was held last February. So what happened after the referendum and the publication of so-far undisclosed... Read more...
La Note préparatoire sur la Cartographiede l’Appui de l’UE en faveur de l’assainissement en Afrique découle d’une étude complète réalisée par WEDC et dont l’objectif est de disposer d’un aperçu global du niveau d’implication et d’engagement des Etats membres de … Read more...
L’histoire à raconter doit porter sur une activité menée dans le secteur de l’eau, l’hygiène et l’assainissement et qui a contribué à aider les femmes, les hommes et/ou les enfants dans les pays en développement…Grâce à elle, vous pourrez être … Read more...
Plus de 10 millions de personnes sont frappées par la pire sécheresse depuis 60 ans dans certaines régions de la Corne de l’Afrique, confrontant certaines populations du Kenya, de Somalie et d’Ethiopie à de graves problèmes de malnutrition, selon les … Read more...
Une équipe de scientifiques vient de confirmer, dans un article publié dans la revue Nature, qu’un océan d’eau salée est bel et bien présent sous la surface d’Encelade, un des satellites de Saturne. Plusieurs survols supplémentaires de Cassini (issue d’un … Read more...
Les pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest seront confrontés au cours des prochaines années à un risque sérieux de manque de nourriture en raison des inondations constantes qui endommagent la région et ses ressources, ont averti des experts du climat réunis à … Read more...
Human rights groups warn that residents face a severe water crisis. An estimated 95% percent of drinking water fails to meet international standards and water and sanitation plants have yet to berebuilt following the 2009 Israeli war. Read the full transcript Source : FSRN / Real News , 28 Jul 2011 Read more...
Mr Edem Asimah, Chairman of the Select Committee on Water and Sanitation, [has] urged government to determine its own water delivery systems for the people and not allow donors to impose their conditions on us. He said over the years various governments had failed to stop donors from imposing... Read more...
On Thursday, after 23 years of hard work and a major setback, Ghana finally declared victory over Guinea worm. Vice President John Dramani Mahama has called on volunteers and co-ordinators of the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme to be extra vigilant in ensuring that guinea worm did not resurface... Read more...
On 27 July 2011, more than 20 leading international water and development organizations signed and launched the WASH Sustainability Charter. This Charter is a collaboratively-developed mission and set of guiding principles to advance lasting solutions in water, sanitation and hygiene education (... Read more...
Africa could finally be turning a corner in the sanitation crisis, say civil society groups, ANEW and FAN, NGO WaterAid, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and the End Water Poverty Campaign. Read more Source: Public Agenda / allAfrica.com, 25 July 2011 Read more...
Twenty years after the UN launched the Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, and 10 years into the MDGs, the news from a global think tank this week, that more than one billion people still live without access to safe drinking water, health care, and other essentials of daily life doesn't really... Read more...
During the third Africa Sanitation and Hygiene Conference (AfricaSan 3) the Rwanda Environment Care (REC), a local NGO that provides a variety of sanitary facilities across the country, scooped the Utilities Award in Africa for its efforts to improve sanitation and hygiene. Announcing the Utilities... Read more...
Le programme SaniFaso a présenté cette vidéo dans le cadre d’une séance consacrée à ‘l’assainissement, un secteur en apprentissage’, organisée par l’IRC, WaterAid et ANEW. La vidéo présente les constats des quatre organisations à l’origine du projet (avec l’IRC) sur … Read more...
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) has taken steps to nab water pirates in Colombo and the suburbs, an official said. "We have established a special unit to nab water pirates. It is headed by a chief engineer in the NWSDB," Deputy General Manager, Western and Central (NWSDB),... Read more...
IRC has developed a training course From Water Infrastructure to Water Services That Last | Putting it into Practice about the practical application of the concepts of a service delivery approach and the life-cycle costs approach for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Read more...
The Ministry of Electricity and Water's pre-paid water supply project aims to conserve water and generate state revenues. Acting Minister of Electricity and Water, Salem Al-Othaina, who inaugurated phase one at Jabriya Water Plant, described it as one of the ministry's "crucial projects", Pre-paid... Read more...
Le blog Wash nouvelles Burkina a été créé en mars 2011. Au cours des quatre mois suivants, il est devenu une réalité quotidienne et un mode de communication important pour les acteurs du secteur de l’eau … Read more...
Civil society organisations (CSOs) are calling on African leaders and international governments to take urgent action on the continent’s critical sanitation situation. The call was issued on the eve of AfricaSan 3, the only Africa-wide conference on sanitation, which is taking place from 19-21 July... Read more...