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.
UNESCO-IHE, on behalf of the SWITCH Consortium and EU, won the IWA's Sustainability Award 2012 for 'innovation in the practical realization of sustainable urban water management'. The IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre was one of the 33 SWITCH Consortium partners. Read more...
Dr. Ursula Schaefer-Preuss will start as the new Chair of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) as of 1 January 2013. She takes over from Dr. Letitia A. Obeng. Dr. Schaefer-Preuss is an economist who has held positions as Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Director General of... Read more...
On 4 September 2012, the Water Integrity Network (WIN) Foundation was established in The Hague, Netherlands. The new foundation was established to make it possible for WIN to be the recipient of grants through this legal entity in addition to funds that continue to be received through Transparency... Read more...
Peter Ryan recently joined Water and Sanitation for Africa (WSA) as Associate Programme Director. Based at the organisation's HQ, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, his particular area of responsibility is sustainability. Read more...
November 19 is World Toilet Day. The monitoring of sanitation facilities globally remained a challenge to the country governments and International agencies. It is sometimes said that the cursory assessment reports (e.g. JMP-Joint Monitoring Programme) of the facts about the rural and urban... Read more...
Practical tools for finance mechanisms feature in a new guide. Read more...
IRC Director Nico Terra officially inaugurated the second international training programme for high level officials of the Government of India on 19 November 2012. Read more...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has chosen the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) to lead a new sanitation learning and sharing platform. The Gates Foundation’s Sanitation Science and Technology Programme has over 80 projects. SEI and... Read more...
Research and learning are set to become important elements in national planning and monitoring of sanitation and water services. That is, at least, the aim of the Research and Learning (R&L) constituency of the Sanitation and Water for All global partnership (SWA), which meets face-to-face for... Read more...
Mozambique's anti-corruption agency GCCC has arrested the former director and financial administrator of the central regional office of the government’s Water Supply Investments and Assets Fund (FIPAG). José Duarte and Henriques Leonardo were expelled from FIPAG in mid-2011, but it apparently took... Read more...
Villa Gualberto Villarroel, better known as Cuchumuela, is the first municipality in Bolivia to achieve 100 percent water coverage. Official recognition for their achievement came from Bolivia’s water and environment ministry MMAyA. It is the story of a successful partnership between local... Read more...
The capital city of Rwanda has turned a delay in funding for new centralised sewerage system into an opportunity. It has revised its plans so that more areas will get connected Read more...
In a cabinet reshuffle Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has been stripped of his additional post as Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation. His successor is Bharatsin Madhavsinh Solanki, a former railway minister and a Member of Parliament representing Gujarat’s Anand district. Read more...
The Sanitation Marketing (SanMark) Community of Practice is a WASH Reference Group initiative supported by the AusAID Innovations Fund and managed by WaterAid Australia. The website provides information on SanMark webinars and in-country training events, and allows visitors to submit questions and... Read more...
SWASH+ is an action-research and advocacy project focused on increasing the scale, impact and sustainability of school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions in Kenya. Read more...
One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently “downgraded”. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but “only” $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity. This recalculation, says WHO, is mainly a result of higher investment cost estimates and the more... Read more...
The NGO “Give to Colombia” will implement several pilot projects that will serve as models for the Rural Water Supply and Wastewater Management Program in Colombia. The pilot projects will focus on WASH in schools, post-construction support, household connections and self-supply models. IRC has a... Read more...
The Water Channel is offering US$ 500 for the best idea for an alternative to the jerry can. The ergonomics of the jerry cans are clearly wrong, says Frank van Steenbergen. Up to 80 million women in Africa have to carry water daily, which can result in a high prevalence of spinal and back pain. Read more...
The majority of the water and sanitation projects funded by the European Union (EU) in six African countries are not sustainable says the EU's spending watchdog. Read more...
