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.
Le directeur exécutif du Centre régional pour l’eau potable et l’assainissement (CREPA), M. Idrissa Doucouré, au terme d’un séjour de travail en Guinée, a animé le samedi 16 avril 2011 une conférence de presse. L’objectif était de rendre compte de … Read more...
Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR- an anglais) va acheminer par bateau les produits chimiques permettant de rendre potable l’eau qui sera distribuée à cinq millions d’Ivoiriens au cours des six prochains mois. « L’approvisionnement de la population en … Read more...
Des mesures d’urgence ont été prises pour aider les populations à ne pas trop souffrir du manque du manque d’eau, surtout en saison sèche. C’est dans ce cadre que le Programme hydraulique d’urgence est en en marche depuis 2010, … Read more...
La Banque arabe pour le développement économique en Afrique (BADEA) a accordé au Sénégal un prêt d’un montant d’environ 4,7 milliards de FCFA (3, 16 millions d’euros) pour contribuer au financement d’un projet d’accès à l’eau potable dans la région … Read more...
Le Triple S, services hydrauliques durables, effectuent des recherches sur la durabilité de l’approvisionnement en eau en milieu rural. Aidez nous en consacrant quelques minutes de votre temps à raconter une expérience récente que vous avez vécu dans le domaine … Read more...
The United Nations and African Union mission in Darfur said it will work with Sudan’s government to try to raise US$ 1.43 billion for water projects in the western Sudanese region at a donors conference in June. “The scarcity of water and lack of water management in Darfur, compounded with a fast-... Read more...
A reusable self-decontaminating sanitary napkin, a children’s latrine training mat and a latrine using urine to flush instead of water are among 26 sanitation technology projects that have been awarded Gates Foundation grants. Read more...
As Saudi Arabia faces an increasing demand for water to support its rapid population and economic growth, General Electric (GE) held the Saudi "Used to Useful" Water Reuse Summit in April 2011 to explore water reuse solutions to support water security in the Kingdom and the region. Saudi Arabia's... Read more...
Jordan is considering “unconventional” and “environmentally unfriendly” plans to solve its water shortage, experts say. These plans include tapping into the ancient southern Disi aquifer , despite concerns about high levels of radiation, and the controversial Two Seas Canal running from the Red Sea... Read more...
More so than any other region, countries in the Middle East rely heavily on technology to guarantee their water supply. Elisabeth Fischer profiles some innovative large and small-scale projects in Abu Dhabi and Yemen designed to overcome the severe water problems in the region in water-technology... Read more...
Rumours that the huge underground pipes of the Great Man-Made River Project (GMRP) are hiding Libyan tanks and missiles, have re-emerged during the current conflict. Back in in 1997, the New York Times reported that the US$ 33 billion project, which provides 6.5 million cubic metres a day to the... Read more...
The Ministry of Infrastructure’s Permanent Secretary Marie Claire Mukasine announced that there would be 100 per cent sanitation coverage in Rwanda by 2012. The government hopes to realise full coverage through a total sanitation campaign and community-based approaches. Read more...
New plan calls for an investment of Euro 10.47 billion in the coming decade to develop water production and supply systems to deal with the dwindling precipitation and the rise in the salinity of the groundwater which considerably exceeds previous estimates, according to a master plan for water now... Read more...
In the years ahead of us at least US $100 billion will be spend worldwide for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Transparency International (TI) warns us that efforts to combat climate change risk to be undermined by corruption and mismanagement. This year, TI’s annual Global Corruption... Read more...
With a high court ruling supporting South Africa's constitutional right to sanitation, Cape Town’s " brutal – and farcical – toilet wars ” have come to an end. Protesters from the Makhaza neighbourhood of the black township Khalelitsha, that was at the centre of the dispute, greeted the court... Read more...
IRC has published as OpenCourseWare, the programme, sessions plans and background reading materials for a two-day training workshop on corruption prevention in the water sector. The focus of the workshop is on building stronger systems of transparency, integrity and accountability. Read more...
Speaking to the press on 27 April 2011 Water Management Resources Authority Narok official Jared Anekeyah said "We need to move towards greener water and sanitation projects such as rainwater collection to keep pace with booming urban populations. We should encourage the harvesting of rain water... Read more...
People across all walks of life have passionately appealed to the President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, as a matter of urgency, not to renew the water management contract with Aqua Vitens Rand. According to them, the company has worsened the urban water situation in the country. Aqua Vitens... Read more...
Most households in Northern Ireland have their water supplied by a government owned company called Northern Ireland Water (NI Water). Recently NI Water has been harshly criticized for a lack of transparency in procurement procedures. The Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a report... Read more...
Despite a significant increase in public water supply, one million families in Chennai, about a third of the city's population, rely on sachets, PET bottles and cans of water for daily consumption. Sales of packaged water continue to soar in a state that already has 680 licensed private drinking... Read more...