{"id":2636,"date":"2020-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/news\/the-republic-of-congo-holds-stakeholder-consultation-to-validate-the-national-report-on-sdg-6-5-1\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:08:39","slug":"the-republic-of-congo-holds-stakeholder-consultation-to-validate-the-national-report-on-sdg-6-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/news\/the-republic-of-congo-holds-stakeholder-consultation-to-validate-the-national-report-on-sdg-6-5-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republic of Congo holds Stakeholder Consultation to Validate the National Report on SDG 6.5.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The workshop which was organized by the Ministry of Energy and Hydraulics<\/strong> and facilitated by GWP-CAf<\/strong> and the Republic of Congo Country Water Partnership (GWP-Congo)<\/strong>, took place in Brazzaville on July 9th<\/sup> 2020.<\/strong> This stakeholder consultation was held within the framework of the second round of reporting<\/strong> in 2020 on SDG 6<\/strong> by implementing countries to create a data baseline to facilitate the implementation of IWRM. This monitoring and reporting  process is supported by Global Water Partnership through the SDG 6 IWRM support<\/a> program. Global Water Partnership Central Africa (GWP-CAf) has provided continuous support to implementing countries in the region from the 2019  regional workshop<\/a> on implementing SDG 6 within the region to technical and material support. The first round of data collection  for SDG 6 was done in 2017 and a major part of this year\u2019s process focused on comparing both reports to track progress made and identify sections that need improvement.<\/p>\n

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The acting Director General of Hydraulics, Mr. Alouna Armel<\/strong> chaired the consultation which brought togethe representatives from different government ministries and institutions, civil society, private sector, research institutions and transboundary basin organization. In his opening speech, Mr. Alouna emphasized the importance of reporting on SDG 6 notably, the identification of constraints in the implementation of IWRM. He urged participants to take active part in discussions to ensure the finalization of the report and concluded by expressing gratitude to GWP-CAf for the technical and financial  support<\/a> provided throughout the monitoring process.<\/p>\n

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The stakeholder consultation kicked off with two presentations by the country\u2019s SDG 6.5.1 focal point, Mr. Loussokou Dieudonne<\/strong>. The first presentation focused on the background and rationale of the monitoring process of SDG 6.5.1 and an overview of the questionnaire explaining the role of the taskforce and country focal point.  During the second presentation on the 2017 SDG 6.5.1 baseline report, Mr. Loussokou emphasized to participants that one of the main objectives of the group discussions to follow, will be to highlight for each section the  progress made from three years ago. The group discussions were marked by arguments to justify the scores given for each section of the questionnaire.<\/p>\n

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Overall, the SDG 6.5.1 indicator score of 40%<\/b> obtained at the end of the consultation, shows an increase of 8%<\/b> points as compared to the 2018 baseline report score (of 32%),<\/b>  with the \u201cEnabling Environment<\/b>\u201d section having the highest score and Finance<\/b> the lowest. In order to accelerate the implementation of indicator 6.5.1 of the SDGs and improve the low score sections, the following recommendations were made at the end of the workshop discussions:<\/p>\n

– Take into account gender issues, vulnerable groups and the private sector, at all levels, in all IWRM-related initiatives;<\/p>\n

– Governmental authorities and stakeholders, should :<\/p>\n