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Gabon Targets Fraud Reduction With New Digital Welfare System

Gabon Targets Fraud Reduction With New Digital Welfare System
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 15:04
  •  Gabon’s Social Affairs Ministry presented a digital platform to track social aid with greater transparency and accuracy.

  • The system aims to improve beneficiary identification, reduce fraud and duplication, and centralize administrative data.

  • Gabon remains Central Africa’s leader in digital public services, with a 0.5741 EGDI score in 2024.

Gabon continues to modernize its public administration as authorities plan a major overhaul of social-aid management through digital technology.

The Social Affairs and Inclusion Ministry held a working session on Monday, December 8, 2025, to present a digital platform designed to optimize social-assistance programs for vulnerable populations. The ministry’s technical teams met a delegation from J&Y Consulting to evaluate the tool, which aims to strengthen efficiency, transparency and traceability in aid allocation.

The platform fits into a data-driven approach to governance. It allows officials to identify beneficiaries more accurately, centralize administrative information and monitor benefits in real time. The system strengthens data reliability and reduces manual intervention, which in turn limits duplications, fraud and operational failures across the management chain.

Gabon continues to position digitalization as a key driver of state performance. Authorities seek to adopt modern tools capable of guiding social-policy decisions through more precise statistical analysis and consolidated datasets.

This effort builds on Gabon’s existing leadership in digital public services in Central Africa. According to United Nations data, the country recorded a 0.5741 score out of 1 on the 2024 E-Government Development Index.

This article was initially published in French by Adoni Conrad Quenum

Adapted in English by Ange Jason Quenum

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