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.
Since 2006 IRC supports a large-scale holistic programme that enables the poor in 250 sub-districts of Bangladesh to seize control of their lives Read more...
While Egypt has made good progress in urban sanitation, access to wastewater treatment in rural areas lags far behind. Read more...
Nearly half of India's 1.2 billion people have no toilet at home, but more people own a mobile phone, according to the country's latest census data. Only 46.9% of the 246.6 million households have toilets while 49.8% defecate in the open. The remaining 3.2% use public toilets. Read more...
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 8 February 2012 The effect of cord cleansing with chlorhexidine on neonatal mortality in rural Bangladesh: a community-based, cluster-randomised trial Full-text Shams El Arifeen DrPH, et al. Background - Up to half of neonatal deaths in high mortality settings... Read more...
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/35922061] The high incidence of open defecation in the Indian state of Bihar is not due to a lack awareness about toilets, according to this new Water for People video . In their view, it's more of a supply chain, marketing problem. The toilets on offer are not particularly... Read more...
Queuing for the Gents in Mumbai. Photo: Hindustan Times A slum resident from Mahim in Mumbai ended up killing his neighbour whom he felt had taken too long in a public toilet. Locals feel the tragic death could have been avoided if only the civic authorities had provided sufficient public toilets... Read more...
Latrine at Farchana refugee camp, Eastern Chad. Photo: Flickr/Sustainable sanitation How important is sanitation during a humanitarian crisis? Why is it important to explore ecological and sustainable sanitation? Groupe URD looks at the case of Eastern Chad, an example of a major long-term crisis... Read more...
School menstrual hygiene management in Malawi : more than toilets, 2012. Full-text (pdf) SHARE; WaterAid This study identifies the needs and experiences of girls regarding menstruation. It draws upon participatory group workshops, a questionnaire and semi structured interviews with school-age girls... Read more...
Journal of Public Health in Africa, March 2012 Factors leading to poor water sanitation hygiene among primary school going children in Chitungwiza Full-text Blessing Dube, James January Although the world has progressed in the area of water and sanitation, more than 2.3 billion people still live... Read more...
Marketing Human Excreta: A Study of Possible Ways to Dispose of Urine and Faeces from Slum Settlements in Kampala, Uganda , 2011. E Schroeder, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). (Full-text) Some key findings include: High sociocultural barriers associated with handling... Read more...
The State Council of China has passed a five-year plan aimed to provide access to safe drinking water for 298 million rural residents from 2011-2015. A total of 114,000 rural schools, and nearly 80 per cent of the rural population will have access to safe drinking water through centralized water... Read more...
“The goal of universal access to clean water is far from complete”, says IRC Programme Officer Stef Smits on CNN International on World Water Day 2012. Read more...
Translating Research into National-Scale Change: A Case Study from Kenya of WASH in Schools, 2011. SWASH Project. Read more...
Effectiveness of Large Scale Water and Sanitation Interventions: the One Million Initiative in Mozambique , October 2011. Full-text (pdf) Chris Elbers, et al. The One Million Initiative of the Government of Mozambique aims at supplying access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation for one... Read more...
Assessing the impact of a school-based water treatment, hygiene and sanitation programme on pupil absence in Nyanza Province, Kenya: a cluster-randomized trial Matthew C. Freeman, Leslie E. Greene, et al. Objectives There has been increased attention to access to water, sanitation and... Read more...
On a day when the UN is highlighting water and food security, the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre is calling for policy changes to promote the use of water at home to boost people’s livelihoods. Homestead-level, small-scale production from livestock and vegetable gardens make a... Read more...
Yves Chartier, who worked for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WSH) at the World Health Organization, died in a tragic accident in the Jura mountains on 8 January 2012. Mr. Chartier was WHO’s face for matters of medical waste management, and for water and sanitation in health care centres and schools. Read more...
