With the goal of mainstreaming an integrated approach to sustainable urban transport and mobility management in African cities, leveraging the EASI framework, SSATP’s Urban Transport and Mobility (UTM) pillar carried out diagnostic studies in the main urban areas of twelve pilot countries:
Over the past two decades, African governments and regional economic communities (RECs) have been, and are continuing, to reform their transport sector policy and strategies. The extent of policy reform is far-reaching and involves integrating transport policy and national economic growth and poverty reduction policies; setting up road funds; creating road agencies; concessioning railway operations; liberalizing port operations and concessioning container terminals; setting up one-stop border post operations, harmonizing regional and national transport regulations and so on.
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). Travel along the corridor is recognized as critical to the socio-economic development of the region, but it also offers opportunities for the fast transmission of communicable diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
Following extensive consultations with both public and private sector stakeholders, the Road Management Initiative (RMI) formerly known as Road Maintenance Initiative was launched in the late 1980.s as a component of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP). This program was led by the Africa Region Infrastructure Department of the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in response to an increasing concern over deteriorating road infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) despite substantial capital investments by governments and donors.
This note is part 3 of a series intended to share information about issues raised in various SSATP reports. This note discusses the impact and lessons learned from road sector reforms in two countries: Burkina Faso and Ghana. It also compares the main factors in each country contributing to road management improvements.
This note is the first of a series intended to share information about issues raised in various Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) reports. It discusses the road sector reform process in Ghana, which is still challenged by political, economic, and social forces.
Africa is urbanizing at a very high pace, and both large and intermediate African cities are experiencing rapid and often unplanned growth. As a result, policy- and decision-makers face numerous challenges regarding planning, development and management of their cities.
Some 20 Road Authorities have been established in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), most since 2000. These agencies were created broadly in line with the principles espoused in the Road Management Initiative (RMI), a component of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP). The agencies were established with the main objective of being more consumer-oriented and market-responsive than the largely politically driven, traditional government Road Agencies.
