Digital Gabon Project

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The development objective of the Digital Gabon Project for Gabon is to enhance adoption of select digitalized public services and increase the number of persons with a legal identity credential that facilitates their access to services. The project comprises of five components. The first component, enabling environment for accelerated digital transformation aims at establishing an enabling environment for the adoption of digitized services. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening the strategic, legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks for digital transformation; and (ii) strengthening the technological foundations for digital transformation. The second component, modernizing legal identity (ID) systems aims at establishing modern, robust, digitalized legal ID systems to provide all persons in Gabon with unique, inclusive legal ID credentials that protect personal data and facilitate access to services. It consists of following sub-components: (i) creation of a robust and inclusive digital ID system to manage the personal identification number (NIP) and issuance of a unique ID credential to all; and (ii) digitalization of the civil registry (CR) system, including birth registration. The third component, digital transformation of public administration and select services aims at transforming selected public services to improve their efficiency using digital solutions under a user-centric approach. It consists of following sub-components: (i) establishing a one-stop-shop portal for public e-services; (ii) improving efficiency of the social protection service delivery; and (iii) improving selected public administration functions through digitalization: e-procurement system and human resources management information system (HRMIS). The fourth component, citizen engagement, implementation support, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) will support the establishment of a project implementation unit (PIU) to provide overall project coordination and implementation support. The fifth component, contingent emergency response will draw from the uncommitted loan resources under the project from other project components to cover the emergency response.