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.
A short video, produced for World Water Day 2013, showing the technologies used in the BRAC WASH II programme to provide safe, arsenic-free water, including: handpump deep tube wells, arsenic removal filters, pond sand filters and piped water systems.
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BRAC is addressing high absenteeism rates among female students through a water and sanitation programme across rural Bangladesh.
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This video by BRAC relates the story of one determined teenager and her commitment to helping BRAC's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (WASH) achieve its goals.
Though only fourteen years old, Akhi is already a leader in her community. Education has helped define Akhi's vision for the future and instilled in her a sense of responsibility. Through involvement in BRAC programmes, Ahki gained the opportunity to improve life for herself and people in her village. She now teaches people in her community how to live safer and healthier lives.
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Babar Kabir, Director Disaster Environment and Climate Change and Water and Sanitation Hygiene of BRAC Bangladesh talks about BRAC?s work. They work on a holistic cycle integrating water and sanitation with hygiene. Recently they finished BRAC WASH 1 in April 2011 to provide 25 million people with improved hygienic latrines. Their next steps are to build on this success as it takes longer than 4.5 years to change behaviours. They are consolidating their actions on those that are higher to convince, the last 5-10%. They are also concentrating on building entrepreneurship skills so that the hardware part can continue and the community will also play a role in the long term sustainability. Mapping water resources and emptying pit latrines are two areas which link BRAC?s WASH work with work on food security.
Interviewed by Nick Dickinson, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre at the Stockholm World Water Week 2011 on Wednesday 24 August 2011
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This video highlights the activities and achievements of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh, which started in 2007.
Read more...Water for People (WfP) determines that microfinance helps release public funds to reach the poorest. Read more...
Internet and social media can be powerful tools to tell accurate, interesting WASH stories. Eight participants from the new Multimedia Journalism and Water course of RNTC (Radio Netherlands Training Centre) and IRC concluded that at the end of their three-week stay in Hilversum. They left for home... Read more...
Akvopedia has launched a new water and sanitation portal on sustainability, developed by Akvo in collaboration with IRC. The portal is structured around five key areas of sustainability - financial, institutional, environmental, technical and social, but also includes outlines of several... Read more...
On World Toilet Day, IRC advocates long term solutions for world-wide sanitation problems. “Sanitation is a fundamental human right. Yet, 2.5 billion people do not have access to sanitation”, says IRC CEO Patrick Moriarty. IRC is leading the way with our knowledge and tools. Our latest resource is... Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh is to conduct detailed planning to convert faecal matter from millions of pit latrines into commercially viable fertiliser, biogas and electricity. Speaking in the lead up to World Toilet Day (19 November), Babar Kabir, Director of the BRAC WASH programme,... Read more...
Sanergy won the first Sarphati Santation Award because in the past two years it has built 242 sanitation facilities run by 130 local entrepreneurs from Nairobi’s slums, who earn US$ 2,000 per year in income for their families while providing hygienic sanitation to 10,000+ residents. IDE Cambodia... Read more...
This short video, produced by the WASHTech project, illustrates the challenge of technology in WASH and how the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a systematic and participatory way of assessing and adopting technology innovation at scale, for services that last. Read more...
At SACOSAN-V in Nepal, IRC shared the WASHCost Calculator with South Asian governments and organisations working on sustainable sanitation. Kathy Shordt gave a sneak preview of the advanced tool based on an example from Venkatapuram, India. Read more...
In 2012, when Indian Minister Jairam Ramesh remarked that “the country needs more toilets than temples”, he was stripped of his additional post as Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation. Not all religious leaders object to linking temples to toilets though. On 25 September 2013, a... Read more...
A new joint initiative in Ghana aims to ensure that monitoring information is effectively used to keep water and sanitation services working. Read more...
Investing in employee WASH = healthy and more productive employees. Read more...
The Cape Verdian government has approved the creation of two new water and sanitation bodies: the national water and sanitation council CNAS and the national water and sanitation agency ANAS. The reform of the water and sanitation sector is being supported by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation... Read more...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has issued a statement calling on churches, governments and the United Nations to ensure universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene as part of the post-2015 development agenda. The Church is seen to have a vital role in advocating for the full realisation... Read more...
The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution on 24 July 2013, proposed by the Government of Singapore on "Sanitation for All" and the establishment of November 19th as World Toilet Day. Read more...
SWIBANGLA is the name of the winning project tendered by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre for the BRAC WASH II programme. SWIBANGLA stands for managing saltwater intrusion impacts in Bangladesh and was kicked-off formally at the BRAC head office in Dhaka on Sunday 7 July, 2013. Read more...
