Cor has 39 years of professional experience in WASH information management and information services. Since 2019 he is IRC's Information Manager, specialising in MS Teams. He is 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.
In his spare time he enjoys dancing with grandmothers and taking Toby out for walks.
Nearly half of India's 1.2 billion people have no toilet at home, but more people own a mobile phone, according to the country's latest census data. Only 46.9% of the 246.6 million households have toilets while 49.8% defecate in the open. The remaining 3.2% use public toilets. Read more...
Latrine at Farchana refugee camp, Eastern Chad. Photo: Flickr/Sustainable sanitation How important is sanitation during a humanitarian crisis? Why is it important to explore ecological and sustainable sanitation? Groupe URD looks at the case of Eastern Chad, an example of a major long-term crisis... Read more...
Journal of Public Health in Africa, March 2012 Factors leading to poor water sanitation hygiene among primary school going children in Chitungwiza Full-text Blessing Dube, James January Although the world has progressed in the area of water and sanitation, more than 2.3 billion people still live... Read more...
Effectiveness of Large Scale Water and Sanitation Interventions: the One Million Initiative in Mozambique , October 2011. Full-text (pdf) Chris Elbers, et al. The One Million Initiative of the Government of Mozambique aims at supplying access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation for one... Read more...
Assessing the impact of a school-based water treatment, hygiene and sanitation programme on pupil absence in Nyanza Province, Kenya: a cluster-randomized trial Matthew C. Freeman, Leslie E. Greene, et al. Objectives There has been increased attention to access to water, sanitation and... Read more...
The responsibility for sanitation in Asia is fragmented over different agencies, and in most cases the priority given to sanitation is low. Therefore more leadership and political will is needed to make sure that organisational structures function, that plans with … Read more...
Using the example of Darfur where militants took over villages after poisoning wells, Jan Eliasson illustrates the link between peace and access to clean water. He then explains the importance of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7, which aims to reduce by half the proportion of people without... Read more...
Twenty PhD Positions are available in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project on pro-poor sanitation innovations for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands, and eight partners were awarded a US$8 million grant to finance the 5-year... Read more...
His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor, former President of Ghana (2001-2009) and former Chairperson of the African Union (2007–2008), will be the first high-level Chair of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership. Kufuor is a passionate global advocate for leadership, … Read more...
Organised by the Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement ( CREPA ), this meeting will focus on the need to improve investment in the water and sanitation sector in Africa. About 200 participants are expected from development organisations, bilateral and multi-lateral groups, civil... Read more...
Investment in water and sanitation in the rapidly urbanising cities of the developing world is key if we are to avoid uncontrollable poverty and ever worsening slums, says WaterAid in a manifesto released on 3 October 2011. Read more...
In October 2011 Darren Saywell left the International Water Association (IWA) to join Plan International USA as Director WASH/CLTS. For the past 7 years, Darren was Regional Group and Programmes Director at IWA, responsible for the association’s programmes and presence … Read more...
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is one of three women who were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Mrs Sirleaf became Africa’s first female elected head of state in 2005, following the end of Liberia’s 14-year civil war which left … Read more...
Investment in water and sanitation in the rapidly urbanising cities of the developing world is key if we are to avoid uncontrollable poverty and ever worsening slums, says WaterAid in a manifesto released on 3 October 2011. The manifesto's author Timeyin Uwejamomere of WaterAid said: "Water and... Read more...
Workers in many clothing and textile factories in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal are denied proper sanitation facilities, a trade union survey has found. Workers were not supplied with toilet paper and being forced to use pieces of fabric, SA Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) secretary Chris... Read more...
African ministers have committed to do what they can ‘in our own back yard’ by using local finance for sanitation rather than depend on hand-outs. They were following the advice of President Kagame of Rwanda who opened AfricaSan 3, the … Read more...
The UN's latest Millennium Development Goals Report notes that progress in sanitation has largely bypassed the poor while rural populations remain disadvantaged. At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2049 to provide 77 per cent of the global population with improved sanitation. Read more...
Each issue of WASHplus Weekly highlights new resources and publications on a wide range of topics related to water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and indoor air quality (IAQ). Read more...