Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa

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

2000

2005

2010

2015

Indicator

Goal

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

Drinking water

Proportion of population practising open defecation (%)

Sanitation and hygiene

1.7

2.2

2.6

3.0

Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (%)

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

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

70.1

Water stress

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

0.9

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

Water resources management

14.0

2 488 Population growth Thousands Gabon

Source: UNSD 2019.

Population growth (thousands)

Institutional and legal framework

Response

Basic elements

1 948

Institutional framework

• Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development • Ministry of the Forest Economy, Water and Fishing • Ministry of Mining, Energy, Oil andWater Resources • Société d’Energie et d’Eau du Gabon [Energy andWater Company of Gabon] (SEEG) • Heritage Company of Public Services, Drinking Water, Energy and Sanitation

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

1 085 1 391

648 827

projections

1975 Source: UN-Desa 2019.

1985 1995 2005 2015 2025

• There is no dedicated public-private partnerships unit

Environment for private sector participation

Wastewater management

Legal, policy and strategy frameworks

Recent data on wastewater management are lacking.

Current enabling policies

Water and sanitation provision

• Law No. 007/2014 on the protection of the environment

Current enabling laws

Gabon

Access to at least basic services

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

Percentage of population

Progress towards MDG target

Met target

Limited or no progress

No data available for 1990

Moderate progress Good progress

Inadequate data

2015

Drinking water

Met target

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

0

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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