Catarina Fonseca is trained as an economist and has a doctoral degree in water sciences. She has over twenty-three years of experience in development cooperation and non-profits of which twenty in the water and sanitation sector. She has pioneered sector development on the understanding of life-cycle costs and financing. She was the WASHCost Director (2008-2013), a large-scale initiative to identify the long-term costs of sustaining rural and peri-urban water and sanitation services. She has been part of the IRC management team and managed the International and Innovation programme from 2012-2019.
Catarina Fonseca was the Director of Watershed, a 5-year strategic programme that run from 2016-2020 to strengthen the ability of citizens to hold governments and service providers accountable for the services they deliver. She is an Associate of IRC and is available for consultancy assignments. Over the past 20 years she has trained, assessed, evaluated and provided technical support to over 50 clients. Since 2019 she has her own company, Pulsing Tide.
Guidelines for European national and subnational policy-makers responsible for sustainable financing of small-scale water and sanitation services,... Read more...
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This book is for those who are in charge of facilitating community management of water supplies. Read more...
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This publication provides information from 50 water utilities in 31 Developing Member Countries of the Asian Development Bank. It is based largely on... Read more...
Despite a long process of liberalization, institutional reforms in Sri Lanka's health and water sectors have been very limited. Read more...
This manual describes the manufacture and use of an improved human-powered pump esp. designed for small-scale irrigation in cases where sandy soils... Read more...
This report examines the issues related to the operation and maintenance (O&M) and cost recovery in rural water supply and sanitation programmes... Read more...
The case studies in this book aim to describe activities relating to source separation in Brazil, the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Argentina and the... Read more...
This report assesses the experiences gained during 15 years of private participation in infrastructure (PPI). Read more...