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.
WaterAid Ghana, a British NGO supporting the Water and Sanitation sector on Friday appealed to the government to release the $350 million it pledged annually towards the Sanitation and Water for all Ghana Compact in 2010. The Policy Manager of WaterAid Ghana, Mr Ibrahim Musah, made the call at... Read more...
The German government will spend spend Sh6.2 billion (US$ 75.3 billion) for the development of water projects in Kenya. This is part of a total package of close to Sh17.5 billion a (US$ 212.5 million) that Germany has allocated for different development projects in Kenya in the next one year. The... Read more...
Updated arrangements for the UN-Water Trust Fund have moved the responsibility for administering the Fund from the rotating UN-Water Chair to a permanent anchoring in the United Nations Office for Project Service (UNOPS). The new arrangements calls for an MoU between each of the 27 UN-Water member... Read more...
The Middle East is likely to plunge into a serious humanitarian crisis due to depletion of water resources, unless remedial measures are introduced urgently, says a new report [1]. The Strategic Foresight Group prepared the report, "The Blue Peace", with support from the Swiss Agency for... Read more...
The Delhi Jal Board (city water board) has approved levying sewerage development charges on those premises which do not have a DJB water connection, or have a cut-off connection, but discharge sewage into its sewer system. The monthly levy will be in the range of 150 to 2,500 Indian rupees [US$ 3... Read more...
The Karnataka state Legislative Assembly has extended the deadline making it mandatory for citizens in Greater Bangalore to install rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems. The extension, as drawn up in the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage (Amendment) Bill 2011, was approved unanimously by the... Read more...
Image via Wikipedia Kurdistan Ministry of Municipality and Tourism sealed Monday a contract for construction of drinking water project for Amedi area within Dohuk province. The minister, Samir Abdullah Mustafa, singed the contract priced at 90,000,000 U.S. Dollars with the Lebanese Ster Group and... Read more...
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development ( NABARD ) has approved a INR 1.27 billion (US$ 28 million) project to tackle the drinking water problem in Mahendragarh district of Haryana state. The project will supply water to 64 water-starved villages and 34 dhanies (clusters) at a rate... Read more...
Visualizing.org and Circle of Blue have launched an international contest, which offers a US$ 5,000 cash prize to creative teams of designers, data experts and visualizers who present new ways to visualise data on urban water and sanitation. The competition closes on 18 March and winners will be... Read more...
The International Conference on Water and Wastewater with focus on privatization and benchmarking will be held in Tehran's Milad Tower on April 27 to 28 in cooperation with National Water and Wastewater Engineering Co. (NWWE). Read more...
Why are so many developing countries doing so badly in providing all their citizens with good sanitation, asks Prof. Duncan Mara, University of Leeds? The technical solutions and finances are available, but aid agencies need to focus more on technical training and technical assistance. Read more...
This is a follow-up to the entry about the Berlin Water Utility referendum posted on 2nd February 2011. Berlin’s referendum on February 13th has successfully passed a law demanding the disclosure of all contracts documenting the partial privatization of the Berlin Water Works. Despite the low... Read more...
A total of 212,502 people across six continents celebrated World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2010, according to the co-ordinators, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the International Water Association (IWA). This represents a 73 percent increase in programme participation compared to 2009... Read more...
The government is all set to construct girl-friendly toilets in 5500 community schools throughout the country to enroll more girl students in the schools. The government has allocated Rs. 1.1 billion [US$ 15 million] for the purpose. According to Department of Education, the drop out rate of girl... Read more...
Maintained by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), this web page provides an online reference, including a searchable database, on enabling technologies for handwashing with soap for programme managers. Read more...
Poor hygiene exacerbated by growing piles of rubbish and the current political crisis are all factors that haelth experts and residents say contributed to a dry-season cholera outbreak in Abidjan, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire. So far eight people out of 61 infected have died. The first case - in... Read more...
A field note by the Water and Sanitation Program - South Asia (WSP-SA) documents the evolution of three large, river-based schemes in Aliparamba Gram Panchayat near Kozhikode in the north of Kerala state, India. Read more...
The Ministry of Environment of Pakistan has formed a working group to deliberate on the Country Plan for International Year of Sanitation (IYS- 2008) and IYS launching at the National/Provincial levels. The working groups consist of representatives from the concerned ministeries, provincial... Read more...
VIENTIANE, Lao PDR, 30 January 2008 – The first outbreak of cholera in southern Lao People's Democratic Republic in nearly eight years has prompted a vigorous response from UNICEF and its partners. Securing safe water and adequate sanitation is essential in tackling cholera, a water-borne disease... Read more...
HONG KONG (23 Jan 2008) — The Chinese government unveiled a detailed plan on Tuesday to limit pollution in China’s lakes by 2010 and return them to their original state by 2030.The State Council, China’s cabinet, ordered strict regulation of the release of wastewater, the closing of heavily... Read more...
