Access to clean water in the Central African Republic

The people with the least access to clean water.

The Central African Republic (CAR) has the lowest levels of water access of any country in the world. Only 31% of households have basic water access (JMP). CAR ranks 188/191 of countries on the Human Development Index (HDI) and CAR has the third-highest Multidimensional Poverty level (MPI). Only 14% of people in CAR have access to electricity and less than 1% of roads are paved (WB). With one of the lowest population densities in the world, long periods of civil unrest and poor infrastructure and market conditions, the Central African Republic is often ignored by charities and funders.

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Program Activities

All Access members are helping Water for Good empower ~650,000 people in the Central African Republic with sustainable access to safe drinking water and the Gospel by 2027. Water for Good will construct over 1,300 safe water access points across three regions in West CAR, creating 500+ jobs and ensuring 96% functionality of all water points through local entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships.

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Expected Outputs and Outcomes

This program is expected to improve safe water access coverage in the Mambéré-Kadéï, Sangha-Mbaéré and Nana-Mambéré regions of CAR from 10% to 75% by 2027. This will reduce the subnational MPI of people that lack access to safe drinking water in the Central African Republic from 70% to less than 10% by 2027 (2023 MPI).