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'.

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https://agora.unicef.org/mod/page/view.php?id=281895

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