Urban/Rural Areas

Figure 21 Graph illustrating inequalities in Basic Drinking Water Provision in Urban/Rural Areas in Selected Countries, 2017

Source: JMP (2019). Edited by the author.

4.2.3 The Voluntary National Review (VNR) 2020

In June 2020, the Kenyan government published the second Voluntary National Review (VNR) on the Implementation of the SDGs. On the report, it states that “leaving no one behind is at the heart of Kenya’s development agenda as stipulated in Vision 2030” (p. 28), and that together with the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) and Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) those at risk of being left behind was identified in efforts to implementing a Human Rights Based Approach to Data (HRBAD). Moreover, there are institutions such as the National Human Rights Institutions (NJRIs) in Kenya that ensures a rights-based approach in the implementation of the SDGs, and in 2019, the Kenyan government has established the National Committee on International and Regional Human Rights Obligations for reporting and following up on the regional and international obligations for human rights (VNR, 2020, p. 33). In alignment with the Kenya Vision 2030, the report states that in the focus of water and sanitation, Kenya’s current five-year Medium Term Plan (2018-2022) aims to achieve “a nation living in a clean, secure and sustainable environment, conservation, and able to deal with pollution and waste management” (VNR, 2020, p.23). The VNR report also addresses the significance of SDG 6 and identifies its interlinkages with other SDGs (p.27). Regarding the SDG 6 performance data presented by the VNR 2020, the numbers are very different from the JMP estimates. The numbers presented by the VNR for indicators 6.1.1 and 6.1.2 are presented in Table 4 for reference (p.54).