Appraisal of sectoral developments: second mid-term assessment of UNTACDA II

Abstract

The areas of immediate concentration are improvement and maintenance of the standards of existing national and subregional training institutes; the establishment of methods for adequate recruitment, organization of careers in order to motivate, perfect and retain competent staff at all levels; the strengthening of viable regional and subregional organizations; the setting-up of new African research centers for transport and communications management or the strengthening of those existing; the use of African skills for studies on the maintenance and construction of transport infrastructures and equipment. In this regard, a survey covering all training capacities in Africa in the various areas of transport and communications, should be conducted for the benefit of African countries; a plan should be developed for all these capacities which should be integrated in order to meet the needs of the continent.