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 Watershed empowering citizens webinar on adjusting your advocacy to COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
An interview with award winning entrepreneur Eelco Osse on zero waste innovation. Read more...
From exit strategies to transformation strategies in WASH. Read more...
The long road to data savviness. Read more...
Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury from BRAC on the Bangladesh public health miracle, aid or trade, arsenic, floating latrines and the post-2015 development agenda. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme has helped establish 80,000 Village WASH Committees, whose members are so engaged they're even going into politics. Read more...
A sanitation project's work is not finished with the installation of a pit latrine. What happens a year or two later, when the latrine is full? Read more...
Mrs Rasheda Sahab, a 38-year old widow, has become a successful sanitation entrepreneur, thanks to BRAC's microcredit programme. Read more...
Student Shahanaz Parveen can now openly talk about aspects of menstruation with other adolescent girls from her village and school. Read more...
A sub-district chairman and a schoolteacher/imam in Chittagong, Bangladesh talk to Dick de Jong about their roles in WASH delivery. Read more...
Faecal sludge from millions of pit latrines around the world is being dumped indiscriminately. What can be done to stop this new sanitation challenge? Read more...
A fan of the QIS system of participatory monitoring in Bangladesh came to The Hague to share her knowledge. Read more...
Joep Verhagen quizzes BRAC's senior director and the BRAC WASH programme director about a range of WASH issues and innovations. Read more...