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Digital Gabon — National Legal Identity & E-Government Project

Gabon · Libreville · See the Gabon profile · See the Libreville profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 82% 52/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

A $68.5M World Bank loan funds Gabon's national legal-identity and e-government project, run by ANINF. In June 2024 the country relaunched its electronic ID card for the first time in 11 years, starting in Libreville with nationwide expansion still planned.

68.5 USD million
World Bank IBRD loan financing the project (signed December 2023/January 2024)
20.0 USD million
Enabling environment component budget (project component)
24.5 USD million
Legal identity systems component budget (project component)
17.0 USD million
Public-administration digital transformation component budget (project component)
7.0 USD million
Project support/monitoring component budget (project component)
~11 years
Years since Gabon's previous new-generation ID issuance (as of June 2024)
Digital Gabon — National Legal Identity & E-Government Project

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Agence Nationale des Infrastructures Numériques et des Fréquences (ANINF), Government of Gabon, with World Bank (IBRD) financing
Period
2021–2026 (loan signed Dec 2023/Jan 2024)
Keywords
digital identity, e-government, digital public infrastructure, civil registration

Context

In December 2023/January 2024, the World Bank signed a $68.5 million (IBRD) loan agreement with the Government of Gabon in Libreville to finance the Digital Gabon Project, implemented by the Agence Nationale des Infrastructures Numeriques et des Frequences (ANINF).

Objectives

Increase both the adoption of digitalised public services and the share of the population holding a legal-identity credential, tracked via indicators including a rural-versus-urban coverage ratio.

Activities

The project has four components: enabling environment ($20.0M), legal identity systems ($24.5M), public-administration digital transformation ($17.0M), and project support/monitoring ($7.0M), according to the World Bank's Project Appraisal Document.

Results

The most visible outcome so far is the relaunch, on 25 June 2024, of Gabon's national electronic ID card (CNIE) and associated digital ID number - the country's first new-generation ID issuance in roughly 11 years, using hardware and software from French vendor IN Groupe. Rollout began in Libreville, with expansion to police stations nationwide described as planned rather than yet completed.

Conclusions

The loan closes 30 June 2026; as of the sources reviewed, no independent post-project evaluation of nationwide reach or outcomes had yet been published.

Implementation
Indicative cost
High (€500k–€5M) — $68.5 million World Bank IBRD loan across four components: enabling environment ($20.0M), legal identity ($24.5M), public-administration digital transformation ($17.0M), and project support/monitoring ($7.0M).
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Loan signed December 2023/January 2024; CNIE relaunched June 2024 in Libreville; loan closes 30 June 2026.
Staffing & skills
Agence Nationale des Infrastructures Numeriques et des Frequences (ANINF) - implementing agency, World Bank (IBRD loan financing), IN Groupe (French vendor supplying ID-card hardware and software)

Conditions for success

  • Implementation housed inside a permanent government body (ANINF) rather than a standalone project unit
  • Four-component design explicitly separating enabling-environment, legal-identity, e-government and monitoring budgets
  • Defined PDO indicators, including a rural-versus-urban coverage ratio, to track equity of rollout

Common failure modes

  • Electronic ID card relaunch was, at the time of the sources reviewed, available only in Libreville, with nationwide police-station expansion still 'planned' rather than demonstrated
  • Loan closes June 2026 with no confirmed post-closure continuation plan found in sources reviewed
  • No outcome or lessons-learned report has yet been published

Where it fits

Governance type
national government with multilateral (World Bank) financing
Scale
national (initial rollout: capital only)
Income level
upper-middle-income (Gabon)

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