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.
This report assesses the experiences gained during 15 years of private participation in infrastructure (PPI). Read more...
This paper analysis a successful water sector reform process in Senegal and describes how several years of hard work on reforming the sector resulted... Read more...
This book considers how contracting out can be further enhanced to deliver improved water and sanitation service provision in low- and middle-income... Read more...
A synthesis of the work done at the international seminar in Paris in Dec 2000 that was part of an on-going set of initiatives relating to private... Read more...
Fifty two sector professionals mainly from East Asia discussed and shared approaches to achieve sustainable and equitable water and sanitation... Read more...