Why is finance the unavoidable building block? Listen to this podcast (5 mins) where Andy Narracott, WASH Specialist of UNICEF, talks with Catarina Fonseca, a WASH finance expert, on the essential role of finance for sustainable WASH services.

In this podcast, Catarina Fonseca breaks down the finance building block into two main categories; the costs of service delivery and the sources to (re)cover the costs.

Catarina Fonseca is trained as an economist and has a doctoral degree in water sciences. She has over twenty-five 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.

This podcast was recorded for the online course 'Introducing finance for sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene systems'. This online course provides you with a good understanding of finance as an essential part of sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems. It has been created in partnership by UNICEF, IRC, Water For People and SIWI, with funding from the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Dutch government.