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.
A critical reflection on the use of planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning (PMEL) tools. Read more...
This working paper unpacks what is meant by the enabling environment for finance in WASH and presents real examples of how these bottlenecks are... Read more...
This paper addresses five fundamental questions: (i) what is social accountability; (ii) why is it important; (iii) what are its core features; (iv)... Read more...
Slippage is an expected aspect of behaviour change-oriented sanitation and hygiene interventions, especially those at scale, and not a sign of... Read more...
Less misleading displays of financial data, such as stacked histograms, which separate capital and recurrent expenditure, are preferable to flow... Read more...
In an increasingly urbanising world, with some 863 million people living in informal urban settlements in 2012 (based on UN estimates), there is a... Read more...
This working paper provides evidence on current practices around funding capital maintenance and the resulting impact on services. Read more...
Le Burkina Faso fait partie des nombreux pays qui ont adhéré aux objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement (OMD) et, notamment, à l’objectif 7... Read more...
This paper is about the costs of providing direct and indirect support to rural water service provision and provides an overview of the features such... Read more...
Documenting change is a vitally important activity for learning from and improving upon work carried out. Read more...