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.
Bangladesh and the Netherlands have worked together on flood managment, drainage, river basin management, coastal zone management and improving access to safe water and sanitation for millions of people. Future work will focus on support to the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 together with the World Bank.
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Groundwater cannot be found everywhere. If properly located, a borehole can provide a good supply of water. If it is not, it will fail resulting in wasted investment. This short film on borehole siting is part of a joint 2-year initiative of UNICEF, WaterAid and Skat, under the auspices of the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) to promote more professional drilling. For more information see the accompanying RWSN publication: Siting of drilled water wells : a guide for project managers.
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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.
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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".
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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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A short video, produced for World Water Day 2013, showing the technologies used in the BRAC WASH II programme to provide safe, arsenic-free water, including: handpump deep tube wells, arsenic removal filters, pond sand filters and piped water systems.
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BRAC is addressing high absenteeism rates among female students through a water and sanitation programme across rural Bangladesh.
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This video by BRAC relates the story of one determined teenager and her commitment to helping BRAC's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (WASH) achieve its goals.
Though only fourteen years old, Akhi is already a leader in her community. Education has helped define Akhi's vision for the future and instilled in her a sense of responsibility. Through involvement in BRAC programmes, Ahki gained the opportunity to improve life for herself and people in her village. She now teaches people in her community how to live safer and healthier lives.
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Babar Kabir, Director Disaster Environment and Climate Change and Water and Sanitation Hygiene of BRAC Bangladesh talks about BRAC?s work. They work on a holistic cycle integrating water and sanitation with hygiene. Recently they finished BRAC WASH 1 in April 2011 to provide 25 million people with improved hygienic latrines. Their next steps are to build on this success as it takes longer than 4.5 years to change behaviours. They are consolidating their actions on those that are higher to convince, the last 5-10%. They are also concentrating on building entrepreneurship skills so that the hardware part can continue and the community will also play a role in the long term sustainability. Mapping water resources and emptying pit latrines are two areas which link BRAC?s WASH work with work on food security.
Interviewed by Nick Dickinson, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre at the Stockholm World Water Week 2011 on Wednesday 24 August 2011
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This video highlights the activities and achievements of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh, which started in 2007.
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