IRC Associate
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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.
Financial monitoring will be useful only if governments lead in setting the service-level standards they want to deliver to citizens. Read more...
Menstrual cups (MCs) are acceptable among schoolgirls in rural Uganda and can be an acceptable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly menstrual... Read more...
Asset inventory is essential in Ethiopia to develop more realistic planning to increase functionality as well as coverage. Read more...
Exploring broader efficiency aspects in the water and sanitation sector Read more...
The third informal finance discussion of the One For All alliance was on banking. Particularly the role of national Public Development Banks (PDBs) in the sector and their untapped potential. What are Public Development Banks? In 2021, IRC did a study for the Agence Française de Développement (AFD... Read more...
The One For All alliance curates a small informal group that discusses selected topics on finance in water and sanitation. This monthly blog series attempts to share our reflections and thinking with a wider audience. What are finance strategies for the water supply and sanitation sector? A finance... Read more...
L'alliance One For All organise un petit groupe informel qui explore des sujets sélectionnés sur le financement de l'eau et de l'assainissement. Ce blog est le résultat de la dernière discussion. Nous n'avons pas beaucoup de réponses, mais nous soulevons de nombreuses questions. Tout en continuant... Read more...
This report is part of the joint project undertaking by Uganda Government agencies: the Ministry of Water and Environment and the National Planning... Read more...
Efficient tracking of water and sanitation sector financial data. Read more...
This paper introduces the concept of Learning Alliances, a structured process of innovation and scaling up of innovation in the water and sanitation... Read more...
This paper reviews the experiences gained by the SWITCH consortium (of 33 partners) in grappling with stakeholder engagement in urban water... Read more...
The potential for corruption in water licensing is an important issue. Preventive actions to reduce the risk of corruption are explored. Read more...
Mitigating the impact of climate change and ensuring early adaptation through promoting safe and sustainable WASH interventions. Read more...
In this episode (2 mins) we hear from Catarina Fonseca on the importance of public finance in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more...
IRC Associate Catarina Fonseca talks about the status of finance for WASH services. Read more...
Catarina Fonseca and Fred Muhumuza discuss why WASH coverage levels in Uganda is stagnating. Read more...
Carla Torreani, gerente Gestion Sostenible del Agua para la Fundación Moisés Bertoni, habla sobre la aplicación del Modelo A•B•C para la... Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning Theme 3 - "Water resource management : finding systemic solutions" session of the All Systems Connect... Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning Theme 2 - "Markets and behaviour change : how people invest and driving to scale" session of the All Systems... Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning theme 4 - Governments, politics and systems change session of the All Systems Connect International Symposium... Read more...
