eGabon

active

Prospective

The development objective of the eGabon Project for Gabon is to: (i) improve the timeliness and availability of information to support the delivery and management of public health services; and (ii) to foster the development and roll-out of eHealth applications and services, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services more generally. It comprises the following three components. The first component, strengthening the National Health Information System (NHIS) is to improve the timeliness and availability of information to support health service delivery and management which should contribute to improving Gabon’s human development outcomes. The NHIS should lead to improved accountability and work productivity for the health professionals, both in terms of reducing the administrative burden for health care workers, and minimizing administrative and medical errors. It will significantly change the way in which health workers deliver care, especially those in rural areas where clinicians will have easier access to relevant specialists in urban areas, who would be available for any needed consultation. Electronic medical records and ePrescribing, together with clinical decision support capability, should allow clinical staff to improve both diagnosis and treatment, and reduce medical and prescribing mistakes due to illegible handwriting or unclear abbreviations on hand-written notes. Improved diagnosis and treatment should reduce the incidence of unnecessary hospitalization and lessen the financial burden on the poor. The quality of data available to inform management decision-making would similarly improve, since much of it would be collected in real-time as part of the clinical encounter; The second component, advancing the digital innovation ecosystem development is to contribute to Gabon’s economic diversification by fostering the emergence of a digital innovation ecosystem. This will include the development of a digital incubator in Libreville and smaller-scale incubators in Port-Gentil and Franceville, and should have the side benefit of improving both private and public e-service delivery, which will be critical to generate new entrepreneurship opportunities, in particular for women and youth. The incubators will be leveraged to promote a particular focus on health applications, including contributions to the development of the NHIS (Component 1), and mHealth, and other ICT-based innovations for health. This will impact health outcomes as well as economic development; The third component, project management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the project is to provide fiduciary support to the Project by the National Commission – Labor Intensive Small-Scale Public Infrastructure Works (CN-TIPPEE) , building upon the arrangements set up for the Central African Backbone SOP4, Gabon Project (CAB4). This component will support the Borrower in the areas of Project coordination, supervision, financial management, procurement, monitoring and evaluation, communication, audits, and preparation and supervision of implementation of the safeguard instruments, preparation of related surveys, including through the provision of training, operating costs, goods and services for the required purpose.

FY17 - Health,FY17 - Information and Communications Technologies

World Bank Group

Project

Hospital, Forest Products and Packaging, Telecommunications, Seaport, Government, Commercial