Biennium Report for 1991-1992

Abstract

In Africa, the implementation of the programme actually began earlier in the year when the Conference of African Ministers of Transport, Communications and Planning approved at its first extra-ordinary meeting in May 1991, the first list of projects to be implemented under the programme. Also, in November 1991 UNTACOA II was launched to the international financial community at the Symposium on African Transport and Communications and donors meeting which were held at the same time in November 1991 at the Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States in Brussels, Belgium. This issue is the first of what will be the biennium reports on the progress in the implementation of the program of the Second United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa, 1991-2000 (UNTACDA III). This report will not only cover the progress in the implementation of the 669 approved projects of 1991. But also other activities which were undertaken by the various working groups. African IGOs and UN agencies within the framework, of UNTACDA II Program.