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.
We can already draw on the experience from WASH L&D trailblazers Vanuatu and Bangladesh. Read more...
Report of a Watershed empowering citizens webinar on adjusting your advocacy to COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
An interview with award winning entrepreneur Eelco Osse on zero waste innovation. Read more...
WASH infrastructure and services need to be sustainable, safe, and resilient to climate-related risks. Read more...
On 20 September 2018 the municipality of Bogura and IRC signed a groundbreaking MoU. Read more...
IRC leads the cross-country learning and knowledge component. Read more...
From exit strategies to transformation strategies in WASH. Read more...
Collecting small monthly payments will help waste collectors build their business. Read more...
The long road to data savviness. Read more...
A BRAC/IRC case study shows that tea stalls in Bangladesh are ideal to teach men about hygiene. Read more...
Join us at SACOSAN-VI to talk about sharing data for decision making on WASH in Schools Read more...
Communities in Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda and Bangladesh are en route to better health with the help of local NGOs. 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...
An action research project has developed a decision-support tool to help deliver arsenic- and salt-free drinking water in Bangladesh. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh is to conduct detailed planning to convert faecal matter from millions of pit latrines into commercially viable fertiliser, biogas and electricity. Speaking in the lead up to World Toilet Day (19 November), Babar Kabir, Director of the BRAC WASH programme,... Read more...
SWIBANGLA is the name of the winning project tendered by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre for the BRAC WASH II programme. SWIBANGLA stands for managing saltwater intrusion impacts in Bangladesh and was kicked-off formally at the BRAC head office in Dhaka on Sunday 7 July, 2013. Read more...
The Sanitation Technology for Enterprises (SANTE) applied research project aims to identify safe sustainable solutions for sanitation in high water table areas, rocky areas and flood prone areas in Bangladesh. Read more...
Action research in the BRAC WASH II programme focuses on six issues: sanitation in areas with high groundwater tables, secondary sludge treatment, low-cost water supply technologies, saline intrusion, monitoring and pit latrine sludge processing. Read more...
On WaterCouch.tv, Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp shares a practical example of international cooperation between BRAC in Bangladesh and the All India Organization of Imams of Mosques, which emerged during the 2013 World Water Day celebrations in The Hague, The Netherlands. Read more...
Short video, produced for World Water Day 2013, showing technologies used in the BRAC WASH II programme to provide safe, arsenic-free water. Read more...