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 vibrant transport sector. It is also an essential tool to improve efficiency and effectiveness of resource utilization through increasing coherence between sectorial policy, spending and results. Transport plays a critical role in ensuring that a “pro-growth” approach has “pro-poor” effects in the long run.

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 reduction. To achieve this objective, a participatory process that enabled country stakeholders to review and adapt their poverty reduction and transport strategies was progressively implemented. The Poverty Reduction-Transport Strategy Review (PRTSR) process addressed two fundamental questions:

Gender equality in Uganda

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). While Africa has comparably low CO2 emissions from transport (215 kg CO2/per capita in 2008), they are expected to increase with the increase in Africa’s total oil demand (from 2.98 million barrels per day in 2008 to 3.7 million in 2030).

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 higher the speed the greater the risk of accident and injury.  Conversely, this means that effective speed management can bring a significant reduction in severe accidents. This is illustrated in the figure below.

Cameroon

The Ministry of Transport has developed a National Road Safety Strategy with a Priority Action Plan for the period 2011-2012 which has been followed by a second one for the period 2013-2014.

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:

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 Republic of Congo - was selected for a road safety activity along the Central Corridor. The development of freight transport along corridors has led to a sharp increase of road accidents due to inadequate safety measures.

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 constraints of transiting at an international border, compounded with comparatively low volumes and the imbalance in trade, constitute an obstacle for developing traffic along the 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 Agreement and the establishment of the North South Corridor Agreement. To implement the Central Corridor Treaty for the facilitation of transit through the port of Dar Es Salaam to the landlocked East Africa, the Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency (CCTTFA), comprising Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DR Congo, was established on September 2, 2006.