After 41 years of sharing his professional experience in WASH information management and information services at IRC, Cor has retired. Since 2019 he was IRC's Information Manager, specialising in MS Teams. He was 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.
Within the focus area (speerpunt) “water” of Dutch development cooperation policy, there are two key strands: improving integrated water resources management (IWRM) and the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. At policy level, relevant linkages between these two areas are... Read more...
Experts informeren Tweede Kamerleden over water en ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Read more...
Organised by the NGO Platform of the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP), this public seminar will inform Dutch Members of Parliament (MPs) about water and development cooperation policy. The MPs in question are members of the Committee on "Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation" The seminar... Read more...
Come to IRC's side events and presentations at the 2017 Water and Health Conference! The Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy is organised annually by The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). It considers drinking water supply, sanitation,... Read more...
Stockholm World Water Week discusses World Bank publications on universal metrics. Read more...
Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Joseph Kofi Adda and stakeholders lead the way. Read more...
ICT helps ensure that rural water supply and sanitation systems keep working. Read more...
New report by WHO and UNICEF sets the baseline for ambitious global goals. Read more...
De hulprelatie met een land moet je op een goede manier beëindigen. Read more...
New book reveals how India made community water management work even without charismatic leaders. Read more...
IRC leads the cross-country learning and knowledge component. Read more...
WHO/UNICEF will publish the new indicators for Sustainable Development Goal 6 on July 13th, 2017. Read more...
An overview of IRC publications, tools, presentations, audiovisuals and blogs on systems change and systems strengthening. Read more...
From exit strategies to transformation strategies in WASH. Read more...
A young storyteller will carry on the work to which our late colleague dedicated so much of his professional life. Read more...
Join the Watershed webinar on social inclusion, June 7th. Read more...
And we say farewell to former Chair Hans van Dord and Board member Regien van der Sijp. Read more...
IRC becomes the fourth Dutch development NGO to negotiate an agreement with FNV. Read more...
Ministers need to step up efforts to bridge the financing gap. Read more...
Max Foundation and IRC invite you to discuss sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends. Read more...