Abidjan District Street Addressing (PADA)

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Every building entrance was numbered by how many metres it sits from the start of its street, and more than 295,000 were surveyed. The database went to the tax office, the post and the utilities — no public address lookup is documented.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence📰 Mediagrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure

what does this mean?

The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →

Run byMinistry of Construction, Housing and Urban Planning (MCLU); field survey by IGN FI and GEOFIT

Scale🏙️ City-wide

Cost10bn FCFA (~EUR 15m)

FundingState of Cote d'Ivoire under the World Bank-financed Projet de Renaissance des Infrastructures (PRICI)

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Abidjan's 13 communes were resurveyed from 2021 to build a single address referential for the Autonomous District. By early 2025 the project had identified 14,279 streets and surveyed more than 295,000 of a projected 348,216 occupation units, of which about 256,000 had been stencilled with a number. The numbering is metric: the figure on a door says how many metres its entrance lies from the start of the street. The contractor IGN FI delivered an address database with a portal for the tax authority, statistics institute, post and utilities. Plate-laying began on 17 March 2025 with 9,000 plates for the southern communes; some 80,000 were to follow, with completion targeted for June 2026.

Live 📅 since 2021

🎓 Lesson

The register was built for institutions first — tax, statistics, post, utilities, emergency services. No source documents a public address search, so what residents get is a plate on the wall rather than a queryable address.

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Sources

↗ IGN FI (contractor)The contractor's own reference page. Gives the contract window 07/2021-07/2024, the 13 communes of the Abidjan District, '15 000 roads to be identified', 300 field operators, and the deliverable: 'an address database and dissemination via an application portal accessible to all beneficiaries and contributors of the system', listing DGI, INS, the postal service and utilities. Client: Ministry of Construction, Housing and Urban Planning under the World Bank-financed Infrastructure Renaissance Project. Partner: GEOFIT.

↗ KOACI (media)27 February 2025. Carries the counts: « A ce jour, 14.279 voies ont ete identifiees sur l'ensemble du territoire du District Autonome d'Abidjan », the 348,216 projected / 295,000+ surveyed / ~256,000 stencilled figures, the 10 billion FCFA budget, the launch « en fin 2021 », the metric numbering rule, a repertoire of 7,337 street names approved in 2023 (6,942 validated, Cocody and Yopougon still pending) and the June 2026 plate deadline.

↗ Abidjan.net (media)18 March 2025. Reports « le demarrage de la pose effective des premieres plaques »: 9,000 plates received from 3 March 2025 for zones 1 and 2 (Port-Bouet, Koumassi, Marcory, Treichville, Plateau, Adjame, part of Attecoube), with « pres de 80 000 plaques et accessoires » to follow. This article mentions no public application or digital service — the basis for the entry's caveat.

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🇬🇭 GhanaPostGPS National Digital Addressing System · Accra West Africa's two addressing systems, inverted: Ghana's code is public and on every letterhead, Abidjan's database serves institutions only. 🇮🇳 GEPTIS: Bengaluru's Geospatial Property Tax Map · Bengaluru Both turned a city into an object-level register; Bengaluru's went on to chase the tax, Abidjan's has not been opened to residents. 🇨🇩 DGRK Digital Tax Collection Platform · Kinshasa Central African administrations building the register first — the question in both is who is allowed to query it.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Abidjan District Street Addressing (PADA)” — Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/abidjan-street-addressing/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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