Topic leader: Catarina Fonseca, IRC /WASHCost

Catarina Fonseca is the topic leader of Symposium Topic 1. Monitoring the finance needed for service delivery.  Catarina Fonseca is an economist and a Senior Programme Officer at IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC). Since 2000, Catarina has been coordinating the financing and cost recovery theme at IRC. In 2008, Catarina was appointed as WASHCost Project Director. WASHCost is a five-year action research initiative, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project focuses on identifying the long-term costs of sustaining rural and peri-urban water and sanitation services. Catarina is also currently leading the Innovation and International Programme at IRC.