{"id":2638,"date":"2020-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/news\/gwp-car-facilitates-the-validation-of-the-national-monitoring-report-on-sdg-6-5-1-in-the-central-african-republic\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:08:39","slug":"gwp-car-facilitates-the-validation-of-the-national-monitoring-report-on-sdg-6-5-1-in-the-central-african-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/news\/gwp-car-facilitates-the-validation-of-the-national-monitoring-report-on-sdg-6-5-1-in-the-central-african-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"GWP CAR facilitates the validation of the national monitoring report on SDG 6.5.1 in the Central African Republic."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To support the monitoring of the implementation progress of SDG 6, which aims to &#8220;<i>Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all\u201d&nbsp;<\/i>by 2030, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdg6monitoring.org\/2020-data-drive\/\">2020 Data Drive<\/a>&nbsp;was launched to close the data gap and ensure availability of sufficient country data establish a baseline. This involves countries collecting and reporting data on various&nbsp;SDG 6 indicators&nbsp;to multiple UN agencies to&nbsp;track progress and ensure accountability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/04\/sdg06-1.png\" height=\"250\" width=\"672\"><\/p>\n<p>In line with this, GWP, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP-DHI) and Capacity Building Network on Integrated Water Resources Management (UNDP-CAPNET) launched the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwp.org\/en\/old_sdg6support\/\">SDG6 IWRM Support program<\/a>, which aims to support countries in not only monitoring, but aso in advancing SDG 6 implementation. The priority of this initiative is to support monitoring and implementation of SDG indicator 6.5.1 which measure the&nbsp;<b><i>\u201cdegree of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) implementation\u201d.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The first reporting cycle was conducted between 2017 and 2018, with the Support Program assisting governments in designing and implementing country-led multistakeholder and participatory reporting processes for &nbsp;SDG 6.5.1. Within the context of the second reporting cycle, which had as deadline the 31<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;of July 2020, the SDG 6 IWRM support program is collaborating with and providing technical and financial support to some targeted countries based on demand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/04\/two-2.jpg\" height=\"456\" width=\"606\"><\/p>\n<p>To this effect, country consultations with mutiple stakeholders inorder&nbsp; to collect additional information, confirm or counteract the data included in the draft version of the questionnaire and to validate the national monitoring report on SDG 6.5.1 are underway in implementing countries.<\/p>\n<p>It is within this framework that the Regional Water Partnership for Central Africa (<strong>GWP-CAf<\/strong>&nbsp;)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwp.org\/en\/GWP-Central-Africa\/WE-ACT\/news\/gwp-caf-supports-six-countries-in-the-monitoring-process-for-sdg-6.5.1-in-the-region\/\">through<\/a>&nbsp;CWP-CAR supported&nbsp; the Central African Republic&nbsp; Ministry of Energy, Development and Water resources in hosting a the workshop to validate the&nbsp; report on the&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwp.org\/en\/GWP-Central-Africa\/WE-ACT\/news\/gwp-caf-and-eccas-assess-implementation-of-sdg-6.5.1-in-central-africa\/\">2<sup>nd<\/sup> data collection on SDG 6.5.1<\/a> in the country which began in January 2020. The workshop was attended by <strong>twenty multi-stakeholders<\/strong> whose activities are related to IWRM.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/04\/11-5-1.jpg\" height=\"455\" width=\"606\"><\/p>\n<p>In his opening remarks, the chairman of the workshop ,<strong>Mr. Alain Fid\u00e8le KOLONGATO NGBADOU,<\/strong> Director of Cabinet for the Ministry of Energy Development and Hydraulic Resources, thanked participants for their presence despite the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighted the objectives of the workshop and urged the experts to contribute to the improvement of the report. Finally, he expressed the government&#8217;s gratitude to GWP-CAffor its technical and financial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwp.org\/en\/GWP-Central-Africa\/WE-ACT\/news\/gwp-caf-co-organises-regional-workshop-on-implementation-of-sdg-6-in-central-africa\/\">support throughout<\/a> the SDG 6.5.1 monitoring process in the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/04\/12-5-1.jpg\" height=\"455\" width=\"606\"><\/p>\n<p>To facilitate the stakeholder consultation process, a committee was set up with members: <strong>Mr. Sylvain GUEBANDA<\/strong>, Water Resources Officer and <strong>Regional Chair, GWP-CAf<\/strong> (Chairman), <strong>Rodrigue Prosper YAKENDE<\/strong>, Chair GWP-CAR (Vice-President), <strong>Mr. Barnab\u00e9 FALIBAI<\/strong>, Director General of Water Resources and SDG 6.5.1 <strong>Focal Point(<\/strong>Rapporteur) and<strong> Mr. Pierre Alfred LEBARAMO, Facilitator<\/strong> of the SDG 6.5.1 process (Deputy Rapporteur).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/04\/president-1.jpg\" height=\"518\" width=\"737\"><\/p>\n<p>The first of three presentations made during the workshop was done by Mr. Pierre Alfred LEBARAMO, highlighting the adoption of the <strong>SDG Program in 2015 by the UN member states<\/strong> and the importance of &nbsp;SDG 6 on water and sanitation with a keen focus on indicator 6.5.1. The second presentation by Mr. Barnab\u00e9 FALIBAI was on the 2017 national monitoring report on indicator 6.5.1 and specificities of the process of drafting the 2020 report. He emphasized that this year&#8217;s process is more inclusive and participatory as it involves multi-stakeholders. Mr. Pierre Alfred LEBARAMO made the final presentation on the main sections of the report and scores obtained.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/04\/4-15-1.jpg\" height=\"456\" width=\"606\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The participants were split up into four working groups for each section of the questionnaire (Enabling environment, institutions and participation, management instruments) to make substantive and formal amendments to the report. Two main items were highlighted in the plenary session which followed the group work: (i) the urgent need to validate the National Water Policy document and (ii) mobilizing funds for the development and implementation of the IWRM program in CAR<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the SDG 6.5.1 indicator score of <strong>37%<\/strong> obtained at the end of the consultation, shows an increase of <strong>8%<\/strong> points as compared to the 2017 baseline report score<strong> (of 29%),<\/strong> &nbsp;with the <strong>\u201cEnabling Environment\u201d<\/strong> section having the highest score and <strong>Finance<\/strong> the lowest<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACTION PLAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The participants made recommendations to the government to:<\/p>\n<p>i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; harmonize the semantics of all the perspective headings of the monitoring matrix,<\/p>\n<p>ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;develop, elaborate and monitor actions to improve the indicators<\/p>\n<p>iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;set up a sectoral working group to monitor SDG 6 in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;In unison, participants adopted with amendments the national monitoring report on SDG 6.5.1. In his closing address, <strong>Mr. Barnab\u00e9 FALIBAI<\/strong> expressed his satisfaction with the execution of the workshop and thanked participants for their relevant contributions to improving the report. He also added that the report would be finalized on the basis of the contributions made during the workshop, before submission to UNEP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facilitated by the Central African Republic Country Water Partnership (CWP-CAR) , Central African Republic is the first country in the region to hold a stakeholder consultation workshop to validate the national monitoring report on indicator 6.5.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals. 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