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.
Successful pathways secured uptake by government and had flexible programming. Read more...
Menstrual cups (MCs) are acceptable among schoolgirls in rural Uganda and can be an acceptable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly menstrual... Read more...
Mitigating the impact of climate change and ensuring early adaptation through promoting safe and sustainable WASH interventions. Read more...
Catarina Fonseca and Fred Muhumuza discuss why WASH coverage levels in Uganda is stagnating. Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning Theme 3 - "Water resource management : finding systemic solutions" session of the All Systems Connect... Read more...
The WASH FIT tool helped to improve WASH services in 5 pilot health care facilities (HCF) in Kabarole, Uganda by supporting key building blocks. Read more...
In February and March 2021, home improvement campaigns were conducted in 49 villages of Mugusu and Kasenda sub-counties, and a monitoring exercise... Read more...
Recording of a webinar on lessons learned after nearly four years of intensive research on the use of collective action in WASH by the USAID-... Read more...
An assessment of the potential feasibility, sustainability, and effectiveness of the pay as you fetch (PAYF) management model for water service... Read more...
A preparatory study for a proposal to install a piped water system to serve five communities. Read more...
How are IWRM and WASH related, what are the steps already taken and what is still needed for integration? Read more...
Ensure national ownership is at the centre and maximise existing local government structures. Read more...
This paper presents lessons learnt on improving learning in the WASH sector through resource centre networks in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal... Read more...