Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa

Using MDG 7.C to benchmark progress towards achieving SDG 6

2015

2000

2005

2010

Indicator

Goal

Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services (%)

Drinking water

Proportion of population practising open defecation (%)

Sanitation and hygiene

7.1

7.4

7.3

7.2

Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (%)

Proportion of population with basic handwashing facilities on premises (%)

2.7

2.6

Proportion of safely treated domestic wastewater flows (%)

Wastewater treatment

Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality (%)

Proportion of groundwater bodies with good ambient water quality (%)

Water-use efficiency (US$/cm 3 )

Water-use efficiency

12.3

Water stress

Freshwater withdrawals as a proportion of available freshwater resources (%)

0.6

34.0 (2017)

Degree of integrated water resources management (IWRM) implementation (%)

Water resources management

Cameroon

Population growth Thousands

Source: UNSD 2019.

Population growth (thousands)

Institutional and legal framework

30 032

Response

Basic elements

7 451 10 071 13 600 17 733 23 298

Institutional framework

• Ministry of Water Resources and Energy • Cameroon Water Utilities Corporation • Camerounaise des Eaux [Cameroonian Water] • National Water Committee

Presence of an enabling institutional framework for sustainable water, wastewater and sanitation development and services

projections

1975 1985 1995 2005 2015 2025

Source: UN-Desa 2019.

• Ministry of Water Resources and Energy

Presence of a functional water regulator

Wastewater management Recent data on wastewater management are lacking, but historical records show that 66.2 million m 3 /year of municipal wastewater was generated in 2008 (FAO 2018).

• Law No. 2006/012 of 29 December 2006 on the general scheme of partnership contracts • Support Council for the Realization of Partnership Contracts, established in 2009

Environment for private sector partnership

• Decree No. 2005-3089-PM of 29 August 2005 specifying the rules of assessment, recovery and control of the sanitation tax and the water withdrawals levy

Water pricing facility

Water and sanitation provision

Legal, policy and strategy frameworks

Cameroon

Access to at least basic services

• Sectoral policy letter on urban water supply (April 2007) • Rural Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Policy and 2008–2015 Action Plan • Regulation on the Provision of Drinking Water Distribution Service (December 2010)

Current enabling policies

Percentage of population

Progress towards MDG target

Met target

Limited or no progress

1990 2015

Moderate progress Good progress

Inadequate data

• National Liquid Sanitation Strategy (August 2011) • Sectoral policy letter on liquid sanitation (April 2011)

Drinking water

Met target

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

0

• Law No. 98/005 establishing the water regime of 1998 • Decree No. 2001/216 establishing a trust account for the financing of sustainable water and sanitation development projects

Current enabling laws

National Rural Urban National Rural Urban

Sanitation

Limited or no progress

Sources: CAMWATER 2018; FAO, 2016; World Bank 2018b; World Bank 2018c.

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

Source: WHO and UNICEF 2015.

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