Former Information Manager
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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.
Recommendations for national, state and district level government. Read more...
Last year our IRC colleague Marion bought a dream apartment on the sunny island of Majorca for herself and her daughter. At the moment, she is staying there to keep an eye on the renovation of her apartment. That's not going as well as she had expected. First there was a big leak and now she has... Read more...
Webinar addresses the funding challenges of India's flagship rural water and sanitation initiatives. Read more...
Youth from Odisha, India are invited to submit their ideas to an expert jury panel by 15 July 2022. The Innovation Challenge Awards will be presented on 1 November 2022. Read more...
Organised by the SuSanA India Chapter, Water For People India and IRC, this webinar examined financing sources, gaps and best practices for sustainable WASH services in India. Read more...
At this quarterly members meeting participants will learn about the Coalition's Water and Climate Finance Toolkit for National Public Development Banks (PDBs). Read more...
A panel discussion organised by Youth4Water in collaboration with IRC on solutions to the challenges faced by communities in India/Odisha. Read more...
Uniting systems thinking with technical expertise and public policy to accelerate the vision of universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene Read more...
Experts from India and Bangladesh discussed the best way to deal with faecal sludge management (FSM) in rural areas. Read more...
IRC is a partner of India's 2022 National WASH Conclave. IRC's Country Coordinator for the India country programme Ruchika Shiva moderated a technical session on hygiene. Read more...
Putting women's empowerment front and centre. A webinar in the SDG 6 in South Asia learning series co-convened by UNICEF, SWA, WaterAid, FANSA, IRC, CPRIndia and Athena. Read more...
WASH professionals joined a discussion on how to strengthen local data ecosystems in sanitation. Read more...
Which professional approaches are required to provide rural WASH services in India? Which capacities are needed and how can a systems approach be implemented? Read more...
An annual festival promoting children's rights in the Indian state of Odisha through short films. Read more...
A prize winning solution for vulnerable urban communities in India. Read more...
Women from Odisha, India, demand greater role in decision making and hygiene promotion. Read more...
Members of Agenda for Change and the Millennium Water Alliance (MWA) in South and South-East Asia were invited for the first of a series of regional discussion events on WASH systems strengthening approaches. Read more...
IRC's role as learning alliance facilitator, providing funding and expert advice, has proven to be effective in fostering solutions, development and collective action among district stakeholders in Uganda. Read more...
This session will focus on updates on COVID-19 related challenges and response work from different organizations and SuSanA partners, e.g. from IRC and WaterAid. Read more...
Findings from USAID's Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership (SWS). Read more...
