Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa

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

2010

2015

2000

2005

Indicator

Goal

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

Drinking water

Proportion of population practising open defecation (%)

Sanitation and hygiene

23.9

23.9

22.9

23.5

Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (%)

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

16.5

16.6

16.4 (2006)

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 )

12.3 (2005)

Water-use efficiency

Water stress

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

12.9

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

Water resources management

Central African Republic

Population growth Thousands

Source: UNSD 2019.

Population growth (thousands)

Institutional and legal framework

1 958 2 542 3 223 4 038 5 338 4 493

Response

Basic elements

Institutional framework

• Ministry of Mines, Energy and Hydraulics • Ministry of Development of Energy andWater Resources (MDEWR) • National Agency for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation • Société Nationale des Eaux [National Water Company] (SNE), 1975 • Société de Distribution d’Eau de Centrafrique [Central African Water Distribution Company] (SODECA), 1991 • Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Committee, 2009 • Water Sector Round Table

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.

Wastewater management

• Regulatory Agency for the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector (ARSEA)

Presence of a functional water regulator

There are no recent data regarding wastewater management.

• Law No. 2008-17 of 6 June 2008 on the Code of Public Contracts and Public Service Delegations

Environment for private sector participation

Water and sanitation provision Central African Republic

Legal, policy and strategy frameworks

Access to at least basic services

• Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Action Plan (PASEA) • National Water Supply and Sanitation Policy and Strategies (PSNEA)

Current enabling policies

Percentage of population

Progress towards MDG target

Met target

Limited or no progress

1990 2015

Moderate progress Good progress

Inadequate data

• Law No. 06.001 of 12 April 2006 on the Water Code of the Central African Republic • Decree No. 62-278 on well drilling, 1968

Current enabling laws

Drinking water

Moderate progress

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

0

Sources: FAO 2016; World Bank 2018b; WSP 2011b.

National Rural Urban National Rural Urban

Sanitation

Limited or no progress

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

Source: WHO and UNICEF 2015.

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