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.
We can already draw on the experience from WASH L&D trailblazers Vanuatu and Bangladesh. Read more...
Report of a WASH Debate on climate adaptation. Read more...
De-risking investments by building capacities and subsidising interest. Report of an IRC-NWP WASH Debate. Read more...
The long road to data savviness. Read more...
Experts discuss technical and institutional innovations in emergency water and sanitation at IRC Event. Read more...
We have to spend more and faster than we are doing now if we want everyone to have water and sanitation by 2030. Read more...
Big lenders like the World Bank understand the challenges of sustainability. They accept that we need to move from providing infrastructure to providing services. Still, they find it difficult to find an entry point for including costs other than capital costs in their loans. Read more...
Component costs and drivers are assessed in a new research paper. Read more...
Practical tools for finance mechanisms feature in a new guide. Read more...
What does it cost to provide water services that last? What do we mean by a water service? Read more...
Financing water and sanitation improvements for the very poor remains a major challenge over large areas of the globe. IRC and WSUP show that effective solutions to this challenge do exist. See discussion paper: Financing water and sanitation for the poor: six key solutions (below). Which of the... Read more...