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WURI Biometric Social Safety Program

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Togo's national ID drive stopped for three months in early 2025 and no source says why. It resumed on 12 May across nearly 600 centres, and by December more than six million people held a number.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byINSEED and Agence Nationale d'Identification (ANID)
Scale🌍 National
CostUS$72 million World Bank IDA financing for Togo, plus a further US$20 million agreed in July 2026

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Togo joined the World Bank's WURI programme, a six-country West African identity operation with a US$395.1 million financing envelope, with a request for US$72 million of its own. INSEED and the national identification agency ANID issue every resident a Unique Identification Number on a MOSIP-based system. Mass registration in the Golfe prefecture, the core of Greater Lomé, was halted for three months and resumed on 12 May 2025 across nearly 600 registration centres; a further US$20 million was agreed in July 2026.

Live 📅 since 2021

📊 Impact

More than six million Unique Identification Numbers had been issued as of December 2025, on figures the Togolese government's Permanent Secretariat for Monitoring Reform Policies and Financial Programs published and Togo First reported.

🎓 Lesson

The published record follows the money far better than it follows the queue. Every disbursement is documented - US$72 million in 2020, another US$20 million in July 2026 - and the enrolment total is a government figure relayed through the press. But mass registration in Togo's largest urban prefecture stopped for three months in early 2025 and no source in this entry says why; the report of the resumption states the halt as a fact and moves on. In October 2024, six years after WURI began, the start date for enrolment proper had still not been announced.

🏛️ GovernanceDigital governmentPrivacy & personal data

Sources

↗ World Bank — WURI Phase 2 Project Appraisal Document (funder)Published 28 July 2020Project Appraisal Document PAD3556 for WURI Phase 2: "Togo requested to take part in WURI after the Board's approval of the overall Program, and therefore is a new borrower to join the operation. Togo's addition to the WURI operation, with a request for US$72 million IDA financing, is being processed and appraised as part of Phase 2. The total financing envelope for Phases 1 and 2 amounts to US$395.1 million." The operation is a mix of IDA credits (US$182 million) and grants (US$91 million); the document does not name MOSIP.
↗ Biometric Update — Togo trains personnel for WURI enrollment (press)Published 29 October 2024Training report: supervisory and field personnel were trained from 28 October to 18 November 2024 across all five administrative regions, and "The date for the start of the enrollment proper has not been announced." The timeline anchor for how late mass enrolment began.
↗ Togo First — mass registration resumes in Golfe on 12 May (press)Published 9 May 2025"Halted three months ago, the mass biometric registration campaign in the Golfe prefecture will resume next week, on May 12." The report gives no reason for the halt. Names INSEED and ANID as the bodies behind the e-ID Togo project.
↗ Togo First — registration continues across Greater Lomé (press)Published 21 May 2025"Since May 12, 2025, residents of the Gulf prefecture have been registering and getting their Unique Identification Number (UIN)... Nearly 600 registration centers have been established throughout Greater Lomé. The Agoè-Nyivé prefecture hosts 160 sites."
↗ Biometric Update — Togo issues 6M unique numbers (press)Published 27 April 2026"Over six million NIUs were issued as of December last year" — that is December 2025 — on figures from "a recent report published by the country's Permanent Secretariat for Monitoring Reform Policies and Financial Programs", via Togo First. Also the source for the system being MOSIP-based and for WURI involving six countries. A government figure relayed by the press, not an audited count.
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↗ Biometric Update — Togo obtains $20M in new financing (press)Published 31 July 2026"The Togolese government has sealed a financing agreement with the World Bank which will make available a further $20 million for the expansion" of WURI, one of five agreements signed during a visit by the Bank's Managing Director of Operations to Lomé.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2021. 6 of 6 sources carry a publication date, from 28 July 2020 to 31 July 2026.

When the sources were published

  1. World Bank · international organisationWorld Bank — WURI Phase 2 Project Appraisal Document (funder)
  2. Biometric Update · pressBiometric Update — Togo trains personnel for WURI enrollment (press)
  3. Togo First · pressTogo First — mass registration resumes in Golfe on 12 May (press)
  4. Togo First · pressTogo First — registration continues across Greater Lomé (press)
  5. Biometric Update · pressBiometric Update — Togo issues 6M unique numbers (press)
  6. Biometric Update · pressBiometric Update — Togo obtains $20M in new financing (press)

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Evidence Passport · public beta 8 addressable claims, 6 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-6b51f035fb90bc6e quantitative
a six-country West African identity operation with a US$395.1 million financing envelope, with a request for US$72 million of its own
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The appraisal document states both amounts; the 2026 report gives the country count.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. World Bank — WURI Phase 2 Project Appraisal Document (funder)
  2. Biometric Update — Togo issues 6M unique numbers (press)
Claim 2 clm-41b901c66f8df67e descriptive
INSEED and the national identification agency ANID issue every resident a Unique Identification Number on a MOSIP-based system
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Togo First names the two agencies; Biometric Update identifies the platform.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Togo First — mass registration resumes in Golfe on 12 May (press)
  2. Biometric Update — Togo issues 6M unique numbers (press)
Claim 3 clm-e815a71c8c5e3fa7 quantitative
Mass registration in the Golfe prefecture, the core of Greater Lomé, was halted for three months and resumed on 12 May 2025 across nearly 600 registration centres
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The first report gives the halt and the restart date, the second the centre count.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Togo First — mass registration resumes in Golfe on 12 May (press)
  2. Togo First — registration continues across Greater Lomé (press)
Claim 4 clm-19f2676ab8ae9af3 quantitative
a further US$20 million was agreed in July 2026
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The July 2026 report describes a signed financing agreement.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Biometric Update — Togo obtains $20M in new financing (press)
Claim 5 clm-65a99bceb2ee1fcc quantitative
More than six million Unique Identification Numbers had been issued as of December 2025, on figures the Togolese government's Permanent Secretariat for Monitoring Reform Policies and Financial Programs published and Togo First reported
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The report gives the total, the reference month and the origin of the figure.
Caveat
A government figure relayed by the press; no independent count exists.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Biometric Update — Togo issues 6M unique numbers (press)
Claim 6 clm-2abc05d481b23753 quantitative
US$72 million in 2020, another US$20 million in July 2026
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The two amounts and their dates come from the appraisal document and the 2026 report.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. World Bank — WURI Phase 2 Project Appraisal Document (funder)
  2. Biometric Update — Togo obtains $20M in new financing (press)
Claim 7 clm-d81aa3fe7da93592 descriptive
no source in this entry says why; the report of the resumption states the halt as a fact and moves on
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The resumption report opens with the halt and gives no cause.
Caveat
An absence in the sources, not a statement in them.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Togo First — mass registration resumes in Golfe on 12 May (press)
Claim 8 clm-1242f7960ba67e6b quantitative
In October 2024, six years after WURI began, the start date for enrolment proper had still not been announced
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The October 2024 training report says so in as many words; the 2026 report dates the programme's launch to 2018.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Biometric Update — Togo trains personnel for WURI enrollment (press)
Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-28-p4-uplift effective 2026-08-28 · created 2026-08-28

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
INSEED and Agence Nationale d'Identification (ANID)
Actor types
national-government
Funding model
mixed
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
US$72 million World Bank IDA financing for Togo, plus a further US$20 million agreed in July 2026
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

6 source dossiers

World Bank — WURI Phase 2 Project Appraisal Document (funder) documents1.worldbank.org · 2 linked claims

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Stable source ID
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Publisher
Name not classified · documents1.worldbank.org
Type / language
pdf · language not classified
Published
2020-07-28
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-28
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Project Appraisal Document PAD3556 for WURI Phase 2: "Togo requested to take part in WURI after the Board's approval of the overall Program, and therefore is a new borrower to join the operation. Togo's addition to the WURI operation, with a request for US$72 million IDA financing, is being processed and appraised as part of Phase 2. The total financing envelope for Phases 1 and 2 amounts to US$395.1 million." The operation is a mix of IDA credits (US$182 million) and grants (US$91 million); the document does not name MOSIP.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Biometric Update — Togo trains personnel for WURI enrollment (press) biometricupdate.com · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-1fe57605a35b2dfd
Publisher
Name not classified · biometricupdate.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-10-29
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-28
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Training report: supervisory and field personnel were trained from 28 October to 18 November 2024 across all five administrative regions, and "The date for the start of the enrollment proper has not been announced." The timeline anchor for how late mass enrolment began.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Togo First — mass registration resumes in Golfe on 12 May (press) togofirst.com · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-e6a16b575f51416f
Publisher
Name not classified · togofirst.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-05-09
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-28
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

"Halted three months ago, the mass biometric registration campaign in the Golfe prefecture will resume next week, on May 12." The report gives no reason for the halt. Names INSEED and ANID as the bodies behind the e-ID Togo project.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Togo First — registration continues across Greater Lomé (press) togofirst.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-715953679fccb63c
Publisher
Name not classified · togofirst.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-05-21
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-28
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

"Since May 12, 2025, residents of the Gulf prefecture have been registering and getting their Unique Identification Number (UIN)... Nearly 600 registration centers have been established throughout Greater Lomé. The Agoè-Nyivé prefecture hosts 160 sites."

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Biometric Update — Togo issues 6M unique numbers (press) biometricupdate.com · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-beec9e88fa9c6e32
Publisher
Name not classified · biometricupdate.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-04-27
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-28
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

"Over six million NIUs were issued as of December last year" — that is December 2025 — on figures from "a recent report published by the country's Permanent Secretariat for Monitoring Reform Policies and Financial Programs", via Togo First. Also the source for the system being MOSIP-based and for WURI involving six countries. A government figure relayed by the press, not an audited count.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Biometric Update — Togo obtains $20M in new financing (press) biometricupdate.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-2026d91465aa2136
Publisher
Name not classified · biometricupdate.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-07-31
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-28
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

"The Togolese government has sealed a financing agreement with the World Bank which will make available a further $20 million for the expansion" of WURI, one of five agreements signed during a visit by the Bank's Managing Director of Operations to Lomé.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “WURI Biometric Social Safety Program” — Lomé, Togo. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/lome-biometric-id/ (last verified 2026-08-28). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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