Catarina Fonseca
Project Director WASHCost, Global Team
Key activities
WASHCost Project Director (www.washcost.info)
Until 2008, coordinating the IRC theme on financing and cost recovery as senior economist: supervising several activities such as innovative action research, the production of publications on key issues and the development and facilitation of training courses on the theme together with partners in the South.
Background
Before IRC she worked three years with a Portuguese NGO on participatory approaches with a gender and equity emphasis. With IRC, she has ten years of experience with community based management of water supply and sanitation services and specifically innovative finance, cost recovery mechanisms, tariff setting, microfinance and unit costs. Field experience within IRC includes assignments mainly in Africa (Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cape Verde, Ethiopia) and consultancy work for several Foundations, Development Banks, International Organisations and Governments.
Mrs. Fonseca holds a MAs in Development Studies specialized in agriculture and rural development (The Hague, Netherlands) and was originally trained as an Economist (MAs, Lisbon, Portugal). She is currently working on her PhD (Cranfield, UK).
Publications
- Thematic Overview Paper on Financing and Cost Recovery
- Thematic Overview Paper on Financing Facilities for the Water Sector
- Cost estimates, budgets, aid and the water sector : what’s going on? : an analysis illustrated with data from 12 Sub-Saharan African countries
- Fact sheet on microfinance for water
- Fact sheet on microfinance for sanitation
- WASH scenarios for 2015: A trends analysis paper (OP 41-E)
- Keep It Working: A Field Manual To Support Community Management Of Rural Water Supply (TP 36-E) Also available in French.
- Challenges For The Intermediate Level: Post-Construction Support for Community-Managed Water Supplies (TP 37-E) Also available in Spanish.
- Plugging the Leak: Can Europeans find new sources of funding to fill the MDG water and sanitation gap? (OP 39-E)
Languages
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and basic Dutch
