Former Information Manager
Volg
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.
With a high court ruling supporting South Africa's constitutional right to sanitation, Cape Town’s " brutal – and farcical – toilet wars ” have come to an end. Protesters from the Makhaza neighbourhood of the black township Khalelitsha, that was at the centre of the dispute, greeted the court... Read more...
IRC has published as OpenCourseWare, the programme, sessions plans and background reading materials for a two-day training workshop on corruption prevention in the water sector. The focus of the workshop is on building stronger systems of transparency, integrity and accountability. Read more...
Speaking to the press on 27 April 2011 Water Management Resources Authority Narok official Jared Anekeyah said "We need to move towards greener water and sanitation projects such as rainwater collection to keep pace with booming urban populations. We should encourage the harvesting of rain water... Read more...
People across all walks of life have passionately appealed to the President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, as a matter of urgency, not to renew the water management contract with Aqua Vitens Rand. According to them, the company has worsened the urban water situation in the country. Aqua Vitens... Read more...
Most households in Northern Ireland have their water supplied by a government owned company called Northern Ireland Water (NI Water). Recently NI Water has been harshly criticized for a lack of transparency in procurement procedures. The Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a report... Read more...
Despite a significant increase in public water supply, one million families in Chennai, about a third of the city's population, rely on sachets, PET bottles and cans of water for daily consumption. Sales of packaged water continue to soar in a state that already has 680 licensed private drinking... Read more...
His childhood experience with ill-equipped schools in the provinces inspired businessman Napoleon Co to build toilets for poor Muslim and Christian kids in Mindanao. Read more...
An interim water supply project will hopefully provide relief to residents in south and north Thimphu city who have been going without water for almost four days a week. Authorities are blaming an unprecedented construction boom and the increasing population for the capital city’s persistent water... Read more...
Prisoners in Orissa state, India and in Sunsari District, eastern Nepal, are being deprived of proper sanitation and safe drinking paper, according to local newspaper reports. India, Orissa At a meeting in April 2011 on jail administration, Orissa's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik asked officials... Read more...
More than five projects aiming to augment water supply for the growing Mumbai metropolitan region are facing opposition from locals and the tribal population in rural areas. They are demanding that they get water first before going ahead with the projects. The projects, financed by the Mumbai... Read more...
Some 385 primary schools run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have no water purifiers. They are supplied by water tankers of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). A recent study by the MCD health department showed that 18 per cent of tanker water supplied by the DJB is contaminated. Therefore the... Read more...
The Kathmandu Valley Water Supply Management Board ( KVWSMB ) is going to establish 30 monitoring centres throughout the Kathmandu Valley to curb rampant groundwater extraction. The centres, which are coming into operation by mid-May 2011, will monitor the quality and quantity of groundwater. Both... Read more...
The Sri Lankan government aims to reach 100 per cent coverage in safe sanitation and water by 2020, said Minister of Water Supply and Drainage Dinesh Gunawardena at the Fourth South Asian Conference on Sanitation ( SACOSAN-IV ). The current coverage figure for safe water and sanitation was 85.5 per... Read more...
UNICEF Nepal and Finland have signed an agreement on "Aligning for Action: Sanitation and Water for all in the Context of Climate Change in Nepal". The agreement outlines the Finnish Government's grant of Euro 9.8 million (US$ 14.3 million) over five years for UNICEF Nepal's Water and Sanitation... Read more...
India is sitting on 89.95 billion rupees (US$ 2 billion) of unused foreign aid for water supply and sanitation, according to a report by government auditor Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (CAG). As of 31 March 2010, unutilised committed external assistance for 16 sectors, including water... Read more...
“Act now to end the sanitation and water crisis in the Least Developed Countries”. With this message the End Water Poverty campaign coalition is asking its members to lobby for this with their national governments that go to the Fourth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries ( LDC-IV ) in... Read more...
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) launched its Facebook page in January 2011 and an integrated SMS service in March 2011 to enable public monitoring of garbage collection sites and public urinals/toilets in areas under its jurisdiction. In the first month of operation 99 per cent of the... Read more...
A new United Nations resolution aims to boost efforts to attain the sanitation Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target. Otherwise the world will miss the MDG sanitation target by almost 1 billion people. Read more...
Development aid should refocus on strengthening national institutions and improving governance in ways that promote citizen security, provide justice and create jobs, particularly in fragile states, the World Bank’s latest World Development Report (WDR) suggests. Some 1.5 billion people live in... Read more...
By 2050, more than 1 billion city dwellers may face water shortages if no new infrastructure is built or no new water conservation efforts are undertaken, according to a new study [1]. More than 3 billion may suffer similar water shortages at least one month of every year, says the study. The... Read more...
