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.
Report of a Watershed empowering citizens webinar on adjusting your advocacy to COVID-19 pandemic. 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...
Report of a WASH Debate on climate adaptation. Read more...
How do we make sure that everyone has a basic level of service? Report of an IRC WASH Debate. Read more...
From exit strategies to transformation strategies in WASH. Read more...
Tools are not enough, engage with government for real change Read more...
The long road to data savviness. Read more...
What can the sector learn from circular economy visionary Thomas Rau? Read more...
The Global Water Integrity Outlook was launched in The Netherlands on 15 April 2016. Read more...
Are government-led and private sector approaches mutually exclusive? Read more...
Experts discuss integrated approaches at IRC event in The Hague. Read more...
Nothing less than universal and equitable access to water and sanitation for all by 2030 is what the world wants. Some 50 Dutch water and development specialists came to The Hague on March 4th, 2015, to discuss what it will take to make this goal a reality. Read more...