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.
What do we need to make a business out of sanitation. Read more...
On 12 August 2014, the global campaign Girl Rising organised a Twitter chat on why #WASHmatters for girls' education. Menstrual hygiene was one of the discussion topics. Read more...
Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury from BRAC on the Bangladesh public health miracle, aid or trade, arsenic, floating latrines and the post-2015 development agenda. Read more...
Big lenders like the World Bank understand the challenges of sustainability. They accept that we need to move from providing infrastructure to providing services. Still, they find it difficult to find an entry point for including costs other than capital costs in their loans. Read more...
On 30 June and 1 July 2014 practical tools to keep water and sanitation systems running were discussed at the 2014 WASH Sustainability Forum. Watch a video impression of the first day.
Read more...An action research project has developed a decision-support tool to help deliver arsenic- and salt-free drinking water in Bangladesh. Read more...
Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of poor sanitation. Is that actually true and do we really need to prove that water and sanitation interventions have a health impact? Read more...
Developing countries are committing to sanitation, water and hygiene services for all by 2030, but accountability remains the "Achilles heel". Read more...
An action-oriented platform that features high-level discussions and matchmaking opportunities between the public and private sectors aimed at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) market. Organised by : BoP Hub, MP International and Ashoka Held alongside the BoP World Convention & Expo, there will be... Read more...
This documentary music video, featuring local artists Shadow, J-Glo, 5YA, Jacob-V and Chiller Coolnaneee, draws attention to sanitation problems in post-war Liberia. It is an output of the international participatory action research network, Giving Voice to Hope (GV2H). This network includes Liberian artists and media companies, the University of Alberta's Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology and the Centre for the Cross Cultural Study of Health & Healing, the Edmonton-based Rhodes Recordings, and charities such as the NYC-based GroundUp Global and the Liberia-based Center for Youth Empowerment. The Rotary Club of Calgary funded this video project as part of a series entitled "Songs for sustainable development and peace".
Read more...Save the date! IRC Debate 3rd June, 16:30 hrs, The Hague. Learn what Dutch and international organisations are doing to avoid wasted investment in rural water supply. Go to our Events page to register and get more information . Read more...
More funding for a local government-led approach introduced in 2008 by SNV and IRC to scale up sanitation from community to district level. Read more...
IRC Burkina country director Juste Nansi gives his feedback on the international seminar on monitoring held in the second week of April 2014 in Ouagadougou. Read more...
IRC has been awarded US$ 3 million to ensure that over the next three years, 1.3 million people in Ghana will have access to water services that last: not just for a year or two - but indefinitely. Read more...
A new initiative is launched to stimulate investment in large-scale sanitation services for the poor Read more...
In Bangladesh, BRAC is looking at business models for the use of faecal sludge as organic fertiliser. Read more...
This short video from the BRAC WASH programme highlights their ongoing study in Bangladesh on the use of faecal sludge from double pit latrines as organic fertiliser.
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Women tell how WASH Committees have helped to introduce sanitation in their villages in Bangladesh. This video was produced by the BRAC WASH Programme for World Toilet Day 2013,
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This video, produced by the BRAC WASH programme, shows slides of handwashing promotion sessions for different groups (children, adolescent girls, women, men), as well as for schools, village WASH committees and mosques (imams). It was was released on 5 May 2013 to coincide with the World Health Organization's (WHO) annual global campaign to promote better hand hygiene in health care.
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Dick de Jong speaks to BRAC WASH Director Dr Babar Kabir on WaterCouch.tv at the 2013 World Water Day celebration in the Peace Palace in The Hague on 21 March.
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