H1 2026 Evaluation
Central African Republic Reservoir Transparency
F3Opaque — Ranked #125 out of 167 countries
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Primary source evaluated
Dimension breakdown
Data Availability
20% of total score
ENERCA, the national electricity utility operating the Boali hydroelectric complex (38.75 MW total across Boali I, II, and III run-of-river units on the Mbali River), publishes no reservoir storage or flow data. Boali is run-of-river with negligible storage, and no reservoir water level data is disclosed publicly by ENERCA or any government body. The country has no functioning open-data infrastructure for water resources.
Technical Accessibility
15% of total score
No digital data access mechanism exists. ENERCA has no known public API, data portal, or downloadable datasets. Ongoing armed conflict, displacement, and destruction of infrastructure make even internal data collection unreliable.
Coverage
30% of total score
The Boali complex is the country's primary hydroelectric infrastructure. It is run-of-river, so meaningful reservoir storage data does not exist. No other impounded reservoir with significant storage capacity operates in CAR. Coverage is structurally zero for reservoir metrics.
Historical Depth
13% of total score
No accessible historical hydrological time series from CAR national sources. Some flow data from Boali is held in African Development Bank project documents, but these are project records, not public national datasets, and contain no systematic multi-year reservoir storage series.
Update Frequency
10% of total score
No publication cycle. ENERCA's operational data, if collected, is not released to the public on any schedule. The country's instability (ongoing conflict involving multiple armed groups as of 2025) makes systematic reporting impossible.
Methodological Transparency
8% of total score
No measurement standards or quality documentation published by national authorities. World Bank and AfDB project documents reference operational performance but do not describe a public monitoring methodology.
Language and Usability
5% of total score
French is the official language and the working language of any government data that exists. While French is widely accessible internationally, the absence of actual data makes language usability a non-issue in practice. A minimal score reflects that French would be internationally readable if data were ever published.
Evaluator notes
The Central African Republic ranks among the lowest RTI performers globally. The Boali complex is run-of-river — it stores negligible water compared to impoundment dams — meaning there is no reservoir whose level could meaningfully be published even in a functioning state. The country's fragility index is among the world's highest, with active armed conflict across much of its territory as of 2025. ENERCA operates intermittently and has been the subject of multiple AfDB and World Bank rehabilitation projects, reflecting how degraded its infrastructure is. The RTI score for CAR should be understood as a structural zero: not the result of a policy choice to withhold data, but the outcome of the combination of no significant reservoirs, near-total absence of digital infrastructure, and ongoing instability. Any future evaluation should reassess if the planned Lobaye or Chinko hydropower projects with significant reservoir storage are commissioned and data collection begins.
Evaluated by Jaime Delgado · 2026-09-15 · Methodology v1.3.0