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.
Villagers of the small fishing town of Vunisinu, Fiji were at a mad scramble to find out why their catch was diminishing by the day, only to discover that the causes were of their own making. Household wastewater pollution, over-fishing, and mangrove destruction were pushing the sea’s resources to... Read more...
The Chair of the Africa Water Group (AWG) is shifting between EU Member States. During 2007 the group was chaired by France, who proposed a mapping exercise on EU aid to water sector development in Africa. Active Member States have been requested to submit detailed information on water sector... Read more...
The long-serving Secretary of the UN Water Africa group, Dr. Stephen Maxwell Donkor, has joined UNICEF in Southern Sudan. Dr. Donkor left the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in December 2007 after serving the organization for a decade as a Senior Regional Advisor on Water. Dr... Read more...
Muleba, Tanzania, 17-Jan-08 (UN-HABITAT) President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania inaugurated a project to improve access to clean water for the residents of Muleba town, some 600 km north east of Dar es Salaam. Muleba is one of the six towns participating in the first phase of the Lake Victoria Region... Read more...
21 January 2008 (Babacar Bachir Sane, Le Soleil newspaper) Senegal's Social Forum and CONGAD (a council of non-governmental groups supporting economic development) met in Dakar on 17 January 2008 to form a committee to write a Blue Book, an assessment of the country's potable water and sanitation... Read more...
11 January 2008 (Absalom Shigwedha Outapi, The Namibian) Last year's Government order to NamWater that the water utility should open all rural water points that had been closed due to non-payment was based on the fact that water is the most important commodity in a person's life, President... Read more...
11 January 2008 (World Development Movement) City Water Services, a subsidiary of British-based water company Biwater, has lost an international legal case for breaching its contract to deliver water and sanitation services in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania between 2003 and 2005. The contract with City... Read more...
The aim of this Emergency Environmental Health Forum is to share field experiences and new research focusing mainly on decreasing the disease burden in emergencies. Rather than focusing on water and sanitation equipment the focus is on say diarrhoea reduction and what combined methods can be used... Read more...
