Report of the technical consultative meeting on roads, maritime transport and ports for the countries of North African, East Africa and the island of the Indian Ocean

Abstract

The world economic recession had adversely affected the aid provided by developed countries for the first phase programme of the Decade: the donors had provided only &ltt8 billion out of the $15 billion required to implement the programme while African countries had provided about $5.2 million. The time had come to make an objective review of the results of the first phase and find out why donors were not interested in the projects submitted . in order to find remedial action and chart a new course for the implementation of the second phase programme„ He wondered how the interest of financial organizations could be attracted without first carrying out feasibility and economic studies and whether a study of first phase projects would make it possible to assess their impact on island and land-locked countrieso He also wondered whether the projects of those disadvantaged countries could be integrated into the over all activities of African countries to achieve harmonious and balanced regional economic development,,