Cotonou, Benin, March 26, 2025 - The Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) has officially opened its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Cotonou, Benin. Hosted by Benin's Ministry of Living Environment and Transport, in charge of Sustainable Development (MCVT), the four-day event brought together over 250 participants - including nine transport ministers, senior officials from regional and continental institutions, development partners and transport experts - from across Africa and beyond.

Links to the transnational and summary UTM reports:

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.

Throughout its activities on many corridors in Africa, the SSATP had the opportunity to witness the diversity of the approaches and solutions adopted to improve corridor performance, but also to note that several corridors were struggling with challenges that had been successfully addressed on other corridors.