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.
The power of partnerships. Report of an end-of-programme workshop and a WASH Debate. Read more...
Report of a WASH Debate on climate adaptation. Read more...
De-risking investments by building capacities and subsidising interest. Report of an IRC-NWP WASH Debate. Read more...
Banker Naina Lal Kidwai is our guest in the latest WASH Talk podcast. Read more...
Lessons learned from the Safe Water Phase 2 initiative (2015-2018): a WASH Talk podcast. Read more...
Raising awareness about the socioeconomic, health and environmental context: a WASH Talk podcast. Read more...
Indian sanitation entrepreneur Mayank Midha one year later. Read more...
Are government-led and private sector approaches mutually exclusive? Read more...
Ennovent, IRC and TARU Leading Edge offer entrepreneurs a platform to scale innovations. Read more...
The SuSanA Forum hosts nominees for the Sarphati Sanitation Award for Young Entrepreneurs 2015 Read more...
The Dutch government has introduced a trade-based approach to development. Is this good or bad for the WASH sector? Read more...
What do we need to make a business out of sanitation. Read more...
A new initiative is launched to stimulate investment in large-scale sanitation services for the poor Read more...
Investing in employee WASH = healthy and more productive employees. Read more...