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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 28 years she has trained, assessed, evaluated and provided technical support to over 50 clients. Since 2019 she has her own company, Pulsing Tide.
Smarter emergency measures against COVID-19 needed to ensure lasting solutions in service provision. Read more...
The gap between allocation and spending. Read more...
Technical assistance is the quiet hero behind blended finance. This month, we highlight the seven-year journey of Central America's "Azure Source Capital" in reaching rural populations, a story that shows how it can be done. Read more...
This blog distils the journeys of UDUMA and Sanergy, why they pursued carbon credits, how they financed the first mile and what the timeline looks like. Read more...
How to design and deliver tariff reforms that are financially sound, socially fair, and politically feasible. Read more...
No financial de-risking without policy de-risking, both are essential for making the water sector viable for investment. However, de-risking always comes at a cost to someone — often taxpayers or philanthropic donors. Read more...
Recently, as One For All alliance, we have been reflecting on effective advocacy and activities that can increase national and local public budgets for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). Its a key part of our strategy to influence these. We explored the most successful strategies and how they... Read more...
Guidelines for European national and subnational policy-makers responsible for sustainable financing of small-scale water and sanitation services,... 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...
This paper concludes that there is chronic underfunding of rural water services, to meet the costs required to provide and sustain a basic level of... Read more...
Briefing note describing the life-cycle costs approach and why it was developed. Read more...
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