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.
The One For All alliance curates a small informal group that explores selected topics on finance in water and sanitation. This blog is the result of the latest discussion. We don’t have a lot of answers, but we do raise many questions. While we keep seeking solutions, we’d love to hear your... Read more...
National public development banks are underused and that they have the potential to raise finance for achieving both the SDG 6 and the water-related... Read more...
A short review of the existing landscape of international financial flows to the water sector, with specific focus on climate finance. Read more...
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...
Smarter emergency measures against COVID-19 needed to ensure lasting solutions in service provision. 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...
Financial monitoring will be useful only if governments lead in setting the service-level standards they want to deliver to citizens. Read more...
L'alliance One For All organise un petit groupe informel qui explore des sujets sélectionnés sur le financement de l'eau et de l'assainissement. Ce blog est le résultat de la dernière discussion. Nous n'avons pas beaucoup de réponses, mais nous soulevons de nombreuses questions. Tout en continuant... Read more...
Efficient tracking of water and sanitation sector financial data. Read more...
In this episode (2 mins) we hear from Catarina Fonseca on the importance of public finance in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more...
IRC Associate Catarina Fonseca talks about the status of finance for WASH services. 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...
Last year we were discussing blended finance, what are we discussing now? Read more...
Best practices, challenges and recommendations on the use of UNICEF's Value for Money (VFM) tool and other VFM metrics. Read more...
Recommandations pour les actionnaires des BPDs: les gouvernements des États. Read more...