Dans un contexte d’urbanisation rapide et d’expansion de la pauvreté urbaine en Afrique, une grande partie de la population connaît des difficultés pour satisfaire ses besoins de mobilité et subit, au...
The note reviews the objectives, programs, impact and lessons learned from the operations of the three National Construction Councils (NCCs) established to date - in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. The Councils...
Cette note passe en revue les objectifs, programmes, impacts et leçons tirées de l’opération de trois conseils nationaux de construction créés à ce jour en Tanzanie, au Malawi et en Zambie. Les conseils...
The road sector is going through a period of substantial change. Countries have to keep pace with expanding demand for road infrastructure as well as addressing the backlog of maintenance and its underlying...
Le secteur des routes traverse une période d’importants changements. Les pays doivent être en mesure de répondre à la demande de plus en plus grande pour des infrastructures routières ainsi que de faire...
This note summarizes the methodology, challenges and lessons learned in the planning, management and organization of the Contracting Training Program (CTP) in Lesotho. The Contractor Training Program (CTP)...
This note summarizes challenges, responses and lessons learned by two World Bank supported projects addressing HIV/AIDS in the road sector. These are: The Joint Regional HIV/AIDS Project in the Abidjan...
Over the past ten years or so, the road sector has undergone major reforms in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries. This process has been encouraged by the donor community, especially through the...
Over the past ten years or so, the road sector has undergone major reforms in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries. This process has been encouraged by the donor community, especially through the...
The note highlights the conclusions of the study on Urban Air Quality in Cotonou, carried out in 2000. The purpose of the study was to identify the major source of air pollution in the city, and quantify...
La note souligne les conclusions de l'étude sur la qualité de l'air urbain à Cotonou, réalisée en 2000. Le but de cette étude était d'identifier la principale source de pollution atmosphérique dans la...
This technical note introduces the recently developed Road Management Initiative (RMI) road sector database. Building upon the results of the RMI road sector survey in forty-seven Sub-Saharan African (SSA)...
This overview of the road transport sector in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, includes an analysis of current status, and developments since 1989, and examines forty seven countries in four regions:...
The note is based on a review of the road sector within the member countries of the Customs and Economic Union of Central African States (UDEAC), and describes the road network, indicating conditions on...
This Note presents the Roads Economic Decision Model (RED) that performs an economic evaluation of road investments and maintenance options customized to the characteristics of low-volume roads such as:...
The note outlines the progress achieved by the Western Cape Provincial Government, to attain formalization of the mini-bus taxi industry, envisaged in terms of the National Taxi Task Team (NTTT) recommendations...
Cette note décrit dans les grandes lignes les progrès réalisés par le gouvernement de la Province occidentale du Cap, dans le cadre de la régularisation des entreprises de taxis minibus engagée sur les...
Development practice is concerned with achieving results on the ground, towards improving economic, and social welfare. Road sector development, and administration are no exception to it, being increasingly...
Until the late 1970s, the Finnish Road and Waterways Administration (RWA) operated as a highly centralized agency. Then RWA started its gradual reforms. In the mid 1980s, RWA began evolving into a market-oriented...
Jusqu’à la fin des années 1970, la Road and Waterways Administration (RWA), agence finlandaise des routes et des voies navigables, était un organisme très centralisé. Elle a ensuite commencé des réformes...