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Gladys Mutangadura, OHRLLS

The benefits of an intergovernmental agreement for the Trans African Highway. Gladys Mutangadura, OHRLLS. Inter Governmental agreement on the TAH.

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Gladys Mutangadura, OHRLLS

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  1. The benefits of an intergovernmental agreement for the Trans African Highway Gladys Mutangadura, OHRLLS

  2. Inter Governmental agreement on the TAH • Formal agreement by African countries that stipulates basic technical standards for the roads and the route signsto which they should conform to and norms that they may specify • Countries will commit themselves to undertake their respective responsibilities to adhere to the agreement.

  3. Potential Benefits of an Inter Governmental agreement on the TAH • Improvement and upgrading of the network • Closing of missing links • Improved road connectivity for land locked developing countries • Promotion of regional integration • Certainty for the integrated/ well coordinated development of the road infrastructure and resource mobilization

  4. Benefits • ECONOMIC • Lower transportation costs, less delays • Improved efficiency in the use of existing facilities • Promotion of trade in particular intraregional trade • Expansion of economies of scale • Promotion of tourism • SOCIAL • Safer roads • ENVIRONMENTAL • Improved environmental protection

  5. Transport costs - Truck

  6. How transport costs can be reduced • Improved road conditions - poor road infrastructure accounts for 40% of the transport costs in coastal countries and 60 per cent for landlocked countries, • An improvement of 1% in the road infrastructure could lower transport costs by 0.14%. • Reduced delays due to completion of missing links, harmonized signs and road norms • LOWER TRANSPORT COSTS = LOWER TRADE COSTS • IMPROVED TRADE • CAUTION – Improved trade facilitation to lower the trade transaction costs is vital.

  7. Thank you

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