Abidjan District Street Addressing (PADA)

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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

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence• No measured figure

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)

🎓 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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