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Road Maintenance, Institutional Development, and Environmental Protection

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Chapter 5: Road Maintenance, Institutional Development, and Environmental Protection

Also see:
Chapter 1: Study Rationale, Objectives, and Organization

Chapter 2: Global Trends, Bank Strategy, and Sector Outcomes


Chapter 3: Bank Support to the Transport Sector

Chapter 4: Promoting Private Sector Involvement

Chapter 6: Transport and Poverty


Chapter 7: Internal Bank Performance Factors


Chapter 8: Findings, Lessons, and Recommendations

  • Management and accountability are improving in countries where road funds, agencies, and boards are functioning properly.

  • Performance-based road contracting has been successful in countries with a mature contracting industry and supporting legal framework.

  • The Bank has generally supported the provision of maintenance through user charges.

  • The Bank needs to help clients achieve a new level of governance and institutional capacity, but this will require a stronger crosssectoral approach.

  • Bank-supported road projects have a satisfactory record on environmental compliance but need to encourage energy savings and clean air more actively.

Table 5.1: Analysis of Performance by Institutional Development Objectives, Transport Sector Board Projects, Fiscal 1995-2006

  

Objectives rated moderately satisfactory or better

Subobjective

Number of objectives
rated by IEG 

Number

Percent

Management capacity building

64

39 

61 

Environmental management

22

 14

64 

Monitoring and evaluation

 8

 3

38 

Maintenance

 47

 25

53 

Training

21

11

52

Planning

18

14

78

Technical issues

20

17

85

Studies and safeties

19

13

68

Restructuring, decentralization and regulation

32

20 

63 

All institutional development

251

156

62

Source: World Bank data.< /EM>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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