Initiative pour l'Entretien des Routes: Renforcement des CapacitesInstitutionnelles pour des Reformes de Politiques. Volume 1. Rapport sur les Seminaires de Politique Generale (Road Maintenance. Building Capacity for Policy Reform. Volume 1. Report on the

摘要

Economic reform in Sub-Saharan Africa greatly affects the transport sector.Although decaying transport systems and costly maintenance make transport policy a crucial issue, transport has not always been considered a key economic output. To improve transport efficiency through major policy reforms, the World Bank initiated the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Program (SSATP). The Road Maintenance Initiative (RMI) comprises an essential part of the SSATP program. Volume I describes the decaying road networks and ineffective policy frameworks that RMI is designed to address. Six policy seminars cover road maintenance, road decay, and reform of the policy framework. The volume examines three key areas of road maintenance: operational efficiency; planning, budgeting, and finance; and institutional reform and human resource development. The discussions provide guidelines for future activities and programs to reform road maintenance policies in Sub-Saharan Africa.