Former IRC staff & IRC Associate | PhD in economics
Listen to this podcast with Catarina Fonseca of IRC on how WASH systems strengthening can help address the financing gap in the WASH sector. Read more...
Find out in this podcast with Catarina Fonseca of IRC why she refers to finance as the unavoidable building block and which two key costs are... Read more...
Though mobile money penetration is high (72%), using mobile money for water bill payments is not top of mind and would require additional awareness... Read more...
This presentation provides a simplified definition and framework for blended finance, together with emerging themes and statistics for the water,... Read more...
Without an improved asset maintenance, system it is likely that rural water systems in Ghana will continue to provide unsustainable services. Read more...
A podcast about empowering civil society with transparency tools to aid in the fight against lagging WASH budgets. Read more...
Existing models used for financing water infrastructure development do not seem very applicable to the realities of small towns. Read more...
An interview with IRC's Head International Programme Catarina Fonseca on increasing water sector financing by improving governance. Read more...
This whitepaper reveals that $310 billion a year is wasted on bad water and sanitation services and proposes steps to reverse the cycle of decline. Read more...
Ministers of Finance should increase funding for the enabling environment, make more use of micro and blended finance, and address the inequities in... Read more...
An introduction to ethical fundraising for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) organisations. Read more...
This learning note includes estimates for capital expenditure and direct and indirect costs. Read more...
Less misleading displays of financial data, such as stacked histograms, which separate capital and recurrent expenditure, are preferable to flow... Read more...
This document presents the case of the NGO Gram Vikas in Odisha, that has been developing and supporting community-managed rural water supplies... Read more...
In this document we capture the inputs that contributed in improving water supply to households and an assessment of the costs incurred in this... Read more...
This document captures the inputs that contributed to improving water supply to households and an assessment of cost by the Public Health and... Read more...
While global overviews of evidence are useful as a first step, there is a need for evidence related to specific contexts, such as rural or urban... Read more...