Catarina Fonseca
Project Director WASHCost, International Programme
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 Catarina worked with a Portuguese NGO for 3 years 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.
Catarina holds a MA in Development Studies specialised 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
- See Catarina's extensive list of publications here
Languages
Portugese, English, Spanish, French and basic Dutch
