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.
Part of a larger research project to evaluate the outcome of institutional reforms in different sectors, this study looks at the water and public... Read more...
This book gives a multidisciplinary account of the environmental health hazards threatening children and the range of impacts they can have. Read more...
This paper describes the application of material flux analysis (MFA) to calculate the water balance for the town of Tunja in Colombia. The... Read more...
Since several hundred million dollars have been invested in water supply projects initiated by the Indian Government or by aid organizations in... Read more...
Despite a long process of liberalization, institutional reforms in Sri Lanka's health and water sectors have been very limited. Read more...
GARNET stands for Global Applied Research Network for Water Supply and Sanitation, an initiative which was formally presented and endorsed at the... Read more...
This paper sets out the potential of professional associations and explains how they can greatly facilitate the more efficient use of economic and... Read more...
Between January 1987 and March 1988 a case-control study of the impact of improved water sources on childhood diarrhoea was conducted in Kurunegala... Read more...