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.
An interview with award winning entrepreneur Eelco Osse on zero waste innovation. Read more...
IRC is a partner of India's 2022 National WASH Conclave. IRC's Country Coordinator for the India country programme Ruchika Shiva moderated a technical session on hygiene. Read more...
WASH professionals joined a discussion on how to strengthen local data ecosystems in sanitation. Read more...
Which professional approaches are required to provide rural WASH services in India? Which capacities are needed and how can a systems approach be implemented? Read more...
This session will focus on updates on COVID-19 related challenges and response work from different organizations and SuSanA partners, e.g. from IRC and WaterAid. Read more...
A brainstorming session being conducted by the India Chapter of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance, IRC, WaterAid, UNICEF and India Sanitation Coalition on how to encourage Panchayats to move beyond just infrastructure creation to sustainable service delivery with a rights-based approach. 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...
How can a community-based approach help ensure sustainable urban sanitation services? Read more...
On World Toilet Day, IRC presents its ideas how to 'systemically change sanitation in cities'. A new working paper marks one of the first steps in finding answers on how to reform a sanitation sector, which is failing a large part of the urban population. Read more...
What do we need to make a business out of sanitation. Read more...