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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.
Understanding willingness to pay (WTP) is one of the areas of concern for appropriate pricing and cost recovery in water and sanitation services. Read more...
This paper presents findings of a study on Willingness to Pay (WTP) for water and sanitation in Baroda , India, with special reference to the urban... Read more...
This study analyzes quantitative and qualitative information and develops selected indicators of the condition of the world's freshwater systems. Read more...
This evaluation examined the impact of water and sanitation interventions through contacts with four projects that are sponsored either by USAID or... Read more...
The topic of this paper is transfer of responsibility for water distribution services from a central governmental agency to local government... Read more...
The purpose of this book is to facilitate the sharing of information about Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM), to promote such sharing both... Read more...
This paper describes one approach - the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP) - which has explicitly attempted to make participatory... Read more...
