The second United Nations Transport and Communications decade in Africa (UNTACDA II): subsectoral strategy for postal

Abstract

The strategies and various planned activities and measures advocated for the restoration, modernization and development of the post in Africa are set out in this document which forms a draft program for the postal sub-sector within the framework of the second transport and communications decade in Africa (1991-2000). Considerable work has been done in many countries over the past ten to twenty years to extend the network. Considerable funds were released, particularly in the 1980s to initiate and continue the development and modernization of the postal services. This effort produced favorable results up to the middle of the 1980s, particularly in traffic growth. However, this favorable development suddenly went into reverse from around 1985 and a trend towards stagnation or even reduction in traffic and customer disaffection appeared and is still seen, except in a very few countries in which a dynamic commercial policy, recently introduced, is already producing good results.