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.
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This manual provides guidelines on planning and implementing water and sanitation projects and programmes with a gender-aware approach. Read more...
This book draws on the author's life-long experience working in the family firm Guthrie Allsebrook & Co. Ltd. Read more...
This document explains how environmental preconditions, like climate and geography, limit human access to water; and how human activities affect the... Read more...
This report presents a review of solid waste generation, collection and disposal in Bangkok, and the potential for recycling. It discusses... Read more...