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.
Presentations from the WASH Learning theme 4 - Governments, politics and systems change session of the All Systems Connect International Symposium... Read more...
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Background paper for the Symposium on Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation: Strengthening capacity for local governance Read more...
Analysis of the integrated planning approach used in the Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation (WASPA) in Asia Project (2005-... Read more...
This state of the art report provides: a conceptual introduction to learning alliances; case studies of current practice in Latin America, South... Read more...
This book is for those who are in charge of facilitating community management of water supplies. Read more...
This paper seeks to extend the understanding of the urban environmental agenda and to provide a method for setting local priorities and formulating... Read more...
This book argues that the active participation of women is critical for ensuring sustainable use of water resources. Read more...