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A Decade of Action in Transport
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View this page in : English | عربي | An Evaluation of World Bank Assistance to the Transport Sector, 1995-2005
Current World Bank transport strategy is founded on the three pillars of private sector involvement, continuing sustainability, and development of an appropriate urban strategy. This foundation remains relevant today but requires adjustment to the more complex emerging environment.
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| Overview | Throughout the past decade transport projects have played a pivotal role in economic development and poverty alleviation. The World Bank's strategy has been well managed and effective, showing strong support for intercity highway construction and rehabilitation, an approach that contributed to private sector development, steadily improving project outcome ratings, and key elements of the strategy-sustainability, private sector involvement, and urban strategy- still relevant today.
However, transport strategies must now focus more attention on confronting cross-cutting issues such as traffic congestion, environmental damages, safety, efficiency, and affordability. This focus will necessitate more innovative, multisectoral approaches to resolve thesecomplex and urgent country and global concerns. The Bank may have to reconsider its priorities to fully address these challenging social, political, and environmental issues and shift resources to ensuring efficient multimodal transport, improved rural linkages, and better urban transport.
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| | Findings and Recommendations |
| Findings | Recommendations |  | Private Sector Involvement is Below Expectations
| | Progress among client institutions has been mixed.
| | Despite good project performances, monitoring and evaluation efforts have lagged
| | Performance of staff is difficult sustain [improve information sharing]
| | Other transport modes and themes (urban transportation, rural roads, multimodal transport) are increasingly relevant | | | More on Findings >
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| | Ensure that the focus of the Bank’s transport operations goes beyond intercity highways and gives more attention to issues of growing urgency, including air pollution, traffic congestion, safety, affordability, and trade.
| | | Prepare a Bank Group transport strategy with an emphasis on greater attention to air and water pollution, greater synergies across relevant sectors, enhancing knowledge sharing, continued support for private sector participation,increasing attention to governance and corruption issues, and redeploying staff and budget resources accordingly.
| | Build up the sector’s monitoring and evaluation efforts and align them with the new strategy | | | More on Recommendations > |
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