Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania
Improving Road Safety for Freight Transport on the Central Corridor
The 2,000 kilometer-long trade facilitation route originating from the port of Dar es Salaam and serving Eastern Africa’s landlocked countries - Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic…
Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Senegal
Poverty Reduction Transport Strategy Review
The strategic objective of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Program (SSATP) for the period 2004-2007 was to anchor national transport strategies firmly in national goals and strategies for poverty…
Integration, Connectivity & Cohesion
Real integration will start only when road blocks to national and international freight and passenger transport have disappeared and road users don’t have to pay bribes to use a road; when borders…
Malaysia; Sri Lanka
Accessing Maternal and Child Health Services in Sri Lanka and Malaysia
Access to transport enables women to receive timely obstetric care that is essential for their survival. Transport contributes towards reaching the fifth Millennium Development Goal, to reduce…
Border Crossing Monitoring along the Northern Corridor
Border Crossing Monitoring along the Northern Corridor - Working Paper No. 96 April 2013 — Relatively inexpensive actions such as improving coordination among border agencies, introducing…
Mobility and Accessibility in Urban Areas of Africa
Countries and the development community have shown limited interest to invest significantly in the development of cities and urban mobility in Africa although this interest has started recently to…
Zambia
Facilitate the Implementation of High Impact Road Safety Interventions
Speed Management Project Pilot in Zambia Speeding is assumed to be one of the most important factors for the occurrence and severity of accidents in Zambia, many of which involves pedestrians the…
Safer Vehicles: Pillar 3 of the Decade of Action for Road Safety
The Decade of Action for Road Safety encourages Governments to implement road safety policies and action plans that address the following five pillars: Better road safety management Safer roads…
SSATP partners with African Universities
Africa is facing three urgent transport challenges: 1) the continent has the highest rate of road fatalities in the world; 2) it has an unprecedented growth rate of urbanization; and 3) it has the…
Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Drafting and Validation of Protocols for the Central Corridor
The Corridor Management component focuses on facilitation and transit improvement along corridors, through several corridor-based activities related to the redrafting of the Northern Corridor Transit…
Mitigating and Responding to Climate Change in Africa's Transport Sector
Globally, the transport sector is key in reducing CO2 emissions. The sector accounts for over 90% of primary oil demand and is responsible for 22% CO2 emissions from fuel combustion (IEA, 2010).…
Gender Opportunities through Road Sector Activities in Uganda
Uganda’s Second Road Sector Support Program was designed with the objective of empowering women by improving their opportunities to participate in and benefit from the roads sub-sector and thus…
Road Agencies
In recent years, the Road Management and Financing (RMF) component of SSATP has focused on strengthening the capacity of regional road associations to play an increased leadership role in advocating…
Cameroon, Ethiopia, Zambia
Road Safety Lead Agencies: Good Practices
The Decade of Action for Road Safety encourages Governments to commit to the Decade of Action for Road Safety by implementing action plans that address the following five pillars: Better road…
Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone
Pro-Growth Pro-Poor Transport Strategies
A pro-growth, pro-poor transport strategy (PGPTS) is a sectorial instrument that directs resources to transport interventions that support economic growth and poverty reduction, as well as creating a…
Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin
Abidjan-Lagos Transport Corridor Project
The Abidjan-Lagos transport corridor is the major east-west transport corridor in West Africa, connecting the capital cities of five countries (Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria). …
Nigeria, Uganda
Improving Rural Transport Policy Framework in Uganda and Nigeria
This activity involves support to the formulation of rural transport policies, strategies and action plans in line with an improved policy framework developed by SSATP to facilitate the effective…
Nigeria
Case Study on Federal Road Safety Corps, Nigeria
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Nigeria is one out of a few outstanding road safety lead agencies in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has considerable human (18 098 staff in 2012), logistical and…
African Road Safety Leadership Program kicks off in Abidjan
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 5 February, 2019 – The second Road Safety Leadership Program organized by the Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP, an international partnership hosted by the World Bank),…
Safer Road User Behavior: Pillar 4 of the Decade of Action for Road Safety
The Decade of Action for Road Safety encourages Governments to commit to the Decade of Action for Road Safety by implementing action plans that address the following five pillars: Better road…
Mozambique
Mozambique Customs Transit Regime
The Maputo Corridor is primarily serving its close South Africa hinterland. Compared to direct routing through South African ports, passing through Mozambique implies a Customs transit regime. The…
