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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.
Despite investing US$ 486 million in rural water supply in Tanzania between 2007-2014, coverage is stagnating and even declining. Who is to blame? Read more...
This guide provides local authorities and their partners with decision-making tools and practical methodological approaches to help determine whether... Read more...
Many colleagues are developing mechanisms to track progress towards Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals . Read more...
Decision-support tool to aid the identification of potentially appropriate drinking water methods for arsenic- and salt-mitigation in Bangladesh... Read more...
Only eight African countries provide data on sanitation expenditure. All of them are falling behind on their commitment to spend 0.5% of their Gross... Read more...
Presentation on Vergnet Hydro's water service management model for hand pump systems in Africa, involving delegation to private operators. Read more...
Yesterday was World Water Day and we were flooded with high hopes and a celebratory mood. Goals for the sector have been set last year and there are no significant changes on the horizon. With a business as usual approach, are we really going to achieve the SDGs for the water sector? Read more...
This global review explores the strengths and weaknesses of integrity in the water sector. It provides examples of innovative programmes and tools... Read more...
Tea stall sessions are an integral part of BRAC WASH hygiene promotion activities. Read more...
How can water, sanitation and hygiene actors better address the needs of vulnerable people suffering from urine and/or faecal incontinence in low and... Read more...
This manual provides practical guidance to facilitate and standardise the implementation of social life-cycle costing to "improved" drinking-water... Read more...
Fe0-bearing materials, such as steel wool, hold good promise as low-cost, readily available and highly effective decentralised fluoride treatment... Read more...
In 2014, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and IRC have started a collaboration to pilot the life-cycle cost approach in the context of refugee camps. Read more...
Why do we need domestic public finance for urban sanitation and how much of it being spent now. Read more...
Adaptation of the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) questionnaire for sanitation to the situation of Mobile Desludging in Zimbabwe. Read more...
The report provides insights on the cost of providing water in emergency situations using two camps as case studies. The life-cycle costs approach... Read more...
It costs at least US$ 10 per student to construct water and sanitation facilities in schools and another US$ 1.40 per student per year for all recurrent costs including continuous support to hygiene promotion. Read more...
Traditionally we've looked to the three Ts to finance water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, with the focus on transfers and tariffs. But this leaves a large financing gap. One which, if we don't solve, will make us miss the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of universal access. Read more...
We have five years to get the right financing mechanisms in place if we want to achieve universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030. Read more...
Pour améliorer l'accès des femmes à l'assainissement en milieu rural au Burkina Faso Read more...
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