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.
State Minister for Energy and Water, Coletha Ruhamya revealed that about 672,500 families nationwide have been connected to clean water with the new water supply and sanitation installations put in place during commemoration of the Water Week that ended 26 March 2011. Residents of Busanza and... Read more...
S.M. Sehgal Foundation received the 3rd National Ground Water Augmentation Award-2009 on the occasion of World Water Day 2011. The award, instituted by the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, is given for “innovative practices of groundwater augmentation through rainwater harvesting... Read more...
Four years after news agency IRIN released its award-winning documentary film "Slum Survivors", its makers returned to the Kenyan slum of Kibera to see what had happened to the main characters. Read more...
Sandram Maweru, Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development disclosed during a briefing on Tuesday 14 March 2011 in Lilongwe that the Government will launch a sanitation and hygiene campaign on Saturday 19 March 2011 as one way of improving hygiene in low-income areas of... Read more...
The 2011 Hult Global Case Challenge is offering US$1 million to a team of university students who come up with the best innovation to improve access to water and sanitation in developing countries. On 5 March 2011, the five regional winning teams were announced: Boston University School of... Read more...
A new global map could help improve water resource management and climate modelling, and eventually lead to new insights into a range of geological processes. The map uses permeability data to a much greater depth than before - up to approximately 100 metres - and across greater areas. This makes... Read more...
New US legislation proposes to appoint an International Water Issues Diplomatic Coordinator and to set up a Bureau for Global Water Aid at USAID. Democratic representative from Texas Sheila Jackson-Lee introduced the Global Water Access and Equity Act (H.R.6565) in Congress on 21 December 2010. It... Read more...
In November 2010, SPLASH, the European Union Water Initiative Research Area Network (EUWI ERA-net), selected 5 projects to be funded under the € 2.2 million SPLASH Sanitation Research Programme. Read more...
UNICEF has again chosen Anambra State as one of the few states to benefit from the rural water programmes of the Water Supply and Sanitation Reform Programme (WSSSRP) and Support to Reforming Institutions (SRIP). Briefing newsmen at a workshop organised by UNICEF, the state UNICEF consultant, Amina... Read more...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will provide US$ 29.65 million to support urgent rehabilitation works - restoration and stabilization of water supply and sanitation services in the Municipalities of Harare, Chitungwiza, Mutare, Chegutu, Masvingo and Kwekwe. The Urgent Water Supply and... Read more...
Like any other Kenyan slum, Waruku settlement, part of Nairobi's sprawling Kangemi slums is bursting under population pressure. The mud and corrugated iron walled shanties are packed together - neighbours can literally talk to each other from the comfort of their beds. Plots are separated by... Read more...
With a population exceeding 10,000, Nyankanga ward in Musoma District faces acute shortage of water, a situation that forces its people especially women and children to walk long distance in search of water. The nearest constant supply of safe water is Lake Victoria, which is an over two-hour round... Read more...
The City of Cape Town is looking to harvest methane gas from water treatment plants to make the city more self-sufficient, the city’s executive director for utility services, Lungile Dlamini has revealed. The plan to use the methane gas from sewage was already at an advanced stage and the city was... Read more...
Selling water at more than Sh2 per 20 litre jerrycan will attract a heavy punishment including withdrawal of licences, water vendors have been warned. Mombasa Water and Sewerage Company managing director Moses Kinya said water vendors should not take advantage of the shortage in Mombasa and other... Read more...
A government drought monitoring team came face to face with the vagaries of the current drought when it visited starving and thirsty residents of Sosoma village in Mwingi East district. During the Tuesday visit, the team from the National Crisis Centre found residents and their livestock milling... Read more...
Geordie Rae from St.Theresa Point First Nation dumps a slop pail full of sewage in a dump outside his home. Winnipeg Free Press Leaders of First Nations (indigenous peoples) from northern Manitoba want the United Nations to investigate the violations of rights imposed by the lack of water. Manitoba... Read more...
Ghana can exceed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of 54 per cent on sanitation by 2015 through effective implementation of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) concept. Dr Kamal Kar, founder of CLTS Foundation, who made the observation said this would require behavioural change... Read more...
Traditionally-made big clay pots, locally known as mtsuko, have for ages been used to cool drinking water in Malawian households until they were overtaken by technology and the fridge was introduced. Despite technology, mtsuko are still in use in most homes, especially in semi-urban and rural areas... Read more...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="89" caption="Wikileaks logo"][/caption] Leaked diplomatic cables from US embassies published to date by Wikileaks give an indication of US political interests in international water issues. These generally relate to transboundary water disputes and terrorism... Read more...
The Ministry of Education has called for a more coordinated approach in mitigating drought and water shortage in arid and semi arid areas to stop children from dropping out of school. Education secretary George Godia told an inter-ministerial meeting of permanent secretaries that over 70 per cent... Read more...
