Progress report on implementation of the United Nations Transport and Communications Decade Programme

Abstract

The programme for the phase I of the decade originally consisted of 771 projects for all sectors at an estimate of (8.9) million. Following the call by resolution ECA/UNTACDA/Res.81/18 adopted in March 1981 at the second meeting of the conference of ministers of transport, communications and planning to revise and update the programme, ECA began in 1981 to integrate the following into the programme: -Kagera basin organization (KBO) projects; - ASDCC programmes of action in the field of transport and communications approved in Maputo in November 1980;-Various projects submitted by certain countries either directly to ECA or introduced during the technical consultative meetings organized in Lome in 1981 and in Ouagadougou, Yaounde and Abidjan in 1982.