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.
A series of four videos explore the work and lessons learnt during the SMARTerWASH project in Ghana. Read more...
Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources Hon Joseph Kofi Adda inaugurates nine-member Advisory Board. Read more...
Together with the World Bank, IRC is co-lead of RWSN's Sustainable Services theme. Read more...
Checking the facts and assumptions about menstrual hygiene in developing countries. Read more...
On 18 April, 2018, Dutch sector professionals will discuss how to reach and prioritise the most vulnerable. Read more...
One of the key principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is "leaving no one behind". This means that all the goals and targets of the SDGs aim to be socially inclusive and should be met for all nations and people and for all segments of society. Furthermore, there should be an... Read more...
A networking event on 12 March for water and environmental professionals in The Hague. Read more...
The World Water Forum is the world's biggest water-related event and is organised every three years by the World Water Council (WWC). The 8th Forum brings together the world's leading water experts to discuss the nine Forum themes and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The nine Forum... Read more...
2018 marks the third year of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While national governments hold the primary responsibility for developing policy, and delivering resources and programmes for the goals, civil society also plays a critical role in the implementation and... Read more...
Programme helps innovations get support from government, companies, experts and impact investors. Read more...
How stakeholders should work together to end open defecation. Read more...
Achieving sustainable WASH services requires problem-based approaches focusing on a specific watershed or municipality. Read more...
What we learnt from using the Faecal Waste Flow Calculator in India. Read more...
Indian sanitation entrepreneur Mayank Midha one year later. Read more...
Commissioner Jagadeesha and national adviser Rohit Kakkar share their takeaways. Read more...
NGOs call for effective parliamentary supervision of Dutch-funded water initiatives. Read more...
How can blended finance help in meeting the financing gap for reaching SDG 6? Read more...
Several countries have identified sanitation as the most ambitious and challenging of the WASH-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target and these webinars (one in French and one in Spanish) will focus on building sustainable financing strategies to allow this goal to be met. IRC's Catarina... Read more...
Several countries have identified sanitation as the most ambitious and challenging of the WASH-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target and this webinar will focus on building sustainable financing strategies to allow this goal to be met. IRC's Catarina Fonseca is one of the presenters... Read more...
Within the focus area (speerpunt) “water” of Dutch development cooperation policy, there are two key strands: improving integrated water resources management (IWRM) and the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. At policy level, relevant linkages between these two areas are... Read more...
