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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