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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.
A call to action for ministers of finance, with inspirational case studies and forward-looking sector perspectives. It is part of an initiative by... Read more...
For our last Finance Connect session before the summer, we turned to a question that features in every conversation about WASH finance: how do you actually move money so that it reaches the people who need water and sanitation — and keeps reaching them after the donor changes priorities? 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...
Image credit: Theophile Harushyamagara, Water For People Co-authored by Catarina Fonseca, Stef Smits and Lemessa Mekonta The water and sanitation sector faces immense challenges in attracting sustainable financing, particularly in countries where infrastructure expansion is critical. A significant... 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...
Catarina Fonseca and Fred Muhumuza discuss why WASH coverage levels in Uganda is stagnating. Read more...
Presentations from the CONNECT Finance thematic track of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
This presentation provides a simplified definition and framework for blended finance, together with emerging themes and statistics for the water,... Read more...
This Conference Perspective was co-authored by Patrick Moriarty for the OECD – GIZ Conference: Closing the gap for water in line with SDG ambitions: the role of blended finance, 4-5 October 2018, Eschborn, Germany. 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...
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