Gabon presented, on 30 October, a national mapping expanded to 1,162 public projects, up from 675 in the first census. According to a report from the Gabonese Press Agency, 487 additional operations were added to the database following a supplementary collection. This increase measures the enrichment of the register, but does not constitute a tally of new projects financed or completed.
The feedback workshop held at the Ministry of Planning and Prospective is meant to allow focal points in each ministry to review the results. Commissioner General for the Plan Vulgain Andzembe Tsiegori invited them to check the information against their knowledge of the field, to identify omissions and inconsistencies before validation, the AGP reports.
A database still to be consolidated
The supplementary mission ran from 10 to 24 May 2026 across the nine provinces, after being launched on 8 May. According to the commissioner's explanations, collected by the agency, five teams cross-checked administrative documents, observations at accessible sites and information from deconcentrated administrations. The October presentation therefore reflects the results of earlier collection work.
The register is meant to specify the location of investments, the responsible ministries, sources of financing and levels of implementation. For public programming, the value lies in having a common view of the operations to be monitored, rather than relying on scattered sectoral lists. The exercise is backed by the World Bank.
Implementation and territories at the heart of budget choices
The previous census showed how much project monitoring matters to budget choices. In its statement of 8 September 2025, the Council of Ministers said that, of the 675 operations then listed, 51.6% were ongoing, 24.7% had not started and 18.2% were stalled. These proportions describe the former database and cannot be applied to the 1,162 projects presented this year.
The territorial dimension was also pronounced. Estuaire accounted for 30.7% of projects, compared with 4.3% for Ogooué-Lolo and 5.8% for Ogooué-Ivindo. Housing, infrastructure and digital together made up 43.4% of the initial portfolio. These benchmarks provide a dated reference point for assessing future distributions arising from the supplementary collection.
The same council had noted administrative delays, a local technical deficit and weak diversification of financing. It called for prioritising the completion of operations already under way and for retaining new projects whose maturity had been established. Consolidating the mapping should now give administrations a more reliable framework for programming investments and tracking their implementation.