Since 1990, KfW has been involved in the improvement of water and sewage services in the state of Ceará under the framework of German-Brazilian financial cooperation. MACS and Fichtner Water and Transportation were contracted in 2009 with the provision of adequate water and wastewater services to improve quality of life in the participating communities. MACS developed the Sistema Integral de Saneamento Rural (SISAR) as a solution for rural water and sanitation services as a nonprofit organization based on an association of local user groups that are themselves responsible for the operation, maintenance and administration of the sub-systems composing the regional water supply systems as well as defining tariffs.
Kassyo Rodrigues
Senior Rural Sanitation & Policy Consultant
Kassyo Rodrigues
Senior Rural Sanitation & Policy Consultant
Kassyo is our Brazilian finance expert who combines an MBA in International Business with over 10 years of professional working experience in non-profit-organizations. He is mainly active in our Latin American projects focusing on capacity development, training and educational measures for the staff of non-profit service providers as well as on management support to project implementation units. Besides Latin America, he has performed assignments in Uganda and Mozambique.
Kassyo uses his financial modeling skills to support the development of cost covering water supply services and his familiarity with participatory training methods has enabled him to implement business plans and financial projections as living documents, which can be administered by the people in the project. Kassyo is fluent in Portuguese and English.