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.
In a statement issued on 27 June 2012, the UK Government officially recognises sanitation as a human right under international law. However, in their interpretation of this right, the government excludes “the collection and transport of human waste”. It also does not accept, in their entirety,... Read more...
A first group of Indian officials has participated in a two-week training course and exposure visit on sustainable WASH programming in The Netherlands. The Government of India and UNICEF are sponsoring a capacity building programme for 60 senior WASH staff developed in collaboration with IRC. Read more...
Water sector stakeholders are invited to express their views on how to shape the future of global water monitoring after 2015. The JMP Post 2015 Water Monitoring Working Group has launched an e-survey to let all stakeholders express their thoughts on: the Group's draft goal, targets and indicators... Read more...
Mr. Jon Lane, Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), is stepping down from his post in August 2012, having led the organisation since 2007. During his 5-year directorship, Mr. Lane helped WSSCC to change its its strategic focus to sanitation and hygiene. Read more...
Less than two years after joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, “Toilet Team” director Frank Rijsberman is taking on a new position as CEO of the CGIAR Consortium. The Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR) coordinates the work 15 international centres,... Read more...
Vidya Balan, who received the Best Actress National Film Award for her role in 2011 Bollywood hit 'The Dirty Picture', will now play a role to alter the real dirty picture in India. Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has named the Bollywood actress as the brand ambassador in his... Read more...
An IRC initiative to enhance learning and sharing of lessons on innovations in the water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector. Read more...
Four videos on Monitoring for Action from IRC's YouTube channel. Read more...
India, a leading economic power capable of launching nuclear missiles, is finding it difficult to provide sustainable drinking water and sanitation services. It took the country’s apex auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to point its finger to the shame of slippage... Read more...
A new study covering 40 African countries shows that they are making good progress with integrated approaches to water resources management. Over 75 per cent of the member countries of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) are implementing national national water laws and nearly half are... Read more...
“We will complement each other and create a win-win situation through this collaboration”, said IRC Director Nico Terra when signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Akvo Foundation on 13 March at the 6 th World Water Forum in Marseilles. Read more...
A new film shows how composting toilets are helping to address the serious water issues facing Tuvalu. The tiny Pacific island nation of just 10,500 inhabitants recently experienced a devastating drought. Septic tank systems are polluting the groundwater and destroying … Read more...
A young woman who sparked a "sanitation revolution" in her village by forcing her husband to build a toilet in their home has been presented with a cheque for 500,000 Rupees (US$ 10,000). Anita Narre of Chichouli village of Betul district in Madhya Pradesh received the award from Union Minister of... Read more...
Ministerial delegations from 40 countries have announced serious commitments to tackle the global water and sanitation crisis. Read more...
What does it cost to provide water services that last? What do we mean by a water service? Read more...
Financing water and sanitation improvements for the very poor remains a major challenge over large areas of the globe. IRC and WSUP show that effective solutions to this challenge do exist. See discussion paper: Financing water and sanitation for the poor: six key solutions (below). Which of the... Read more...
Some 60 ministers responsible for finance, water, sanitation and hygiene portfolios from over 30 developing countries will participate in the 2nd Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High Level Meeting on 20 April 2012 at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Together with representatives from donor... Read more...
Arsenic affected patients from West Bengal. Photo: SOES Bone deformities due to arsenic poisoning of groundwater are common among the youth in Bengal, the Indian army has found. Less than 100 youths among the 2,000 who turned up for an army recruitment drive in February 2012, passed the physical... Read more...
By Mustapha Sesay, Sierra Leone. Water is an essential in our daily activities and a basic right for all to access it at affordable rate. It is unfortunate that as the world continues to celebrate World Water Day, most developing countries including Sierra Leone suffer from acute water shortage to... Read more...
Management Information Systems (MIS), SenseMaker and the Quality Information System (QIS) keep track of progress across nearly half of Bangladesh. Read more...
