Progress Report 4

Support to the Integration of Ukraine in the Trans-European Transport Network TEN-T
4th Progress Report
team of specialists to undertake this work within the planned restructuring of the MoTC that would help
to institutionalise this process and establish a sustainable platform.
An initial set of traffic forecasts has been produced for the years 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050 for
road traffic. The forecasts are based on a set of central assumptions relating to population, regional
economic development and elasticitities. The methodology used and sources of prime data have been
discussed with Ukravtodor and Ukradiprador to ensure the acceptability of the forecast by MoTC.
Rail traffic forecasts are not yet completed but based on current progress we should have initial
forecasts by the beginning of Period 5 to discuss with the new MoTC rail team. A summary of the
progress on Project identification is in Appendix 3 attached.
Training Needs
The Training Needs Analysis that was extended to allow the MoTC to get a better picture of the
training needs of the entire transport sector was conducted in Period 1 and the results were published.
It provided the basis for defining the short-term training needs of the MoTC as well as offering a basis
for formulating a long term training strategy. Since this was done the staff turnover has been high so
the conclusions from the analysis may be invalid and this will be the subject of urgent discussions with
the new Head of Section, MoTC HR in August 2010.
Because of the changes in personnel within HR some coordination between projects that was
previously done by HR MoTC was lost. This is now being rectified by HR and closer links are being
established between all projects to ensure that there is no duplication in the training offered by the
different projects and that they are complementary.
However, the situation was later rectified and a schedule of the agreed training to December 2010 is
attached as Appendix F.
National Transport Strategy Defined
A number of drafts of the “MoTC Strategy Paper” were produced with the assistance of TEN-T and the
Twinning project, “Support to Transport Policy Design and Implementation in Ukraine”. A final version
was circulated in July 2010 by the MoTC to other stakeholders for comments and approval. Earlier
drafts were not accepted by other ministries and it is hoped that the new draft will be accepted. The
project will continue to help in this process as required.
Sector Budget Support (SBS) Indicators
As part of the developing strategy process the SBS indicators will show progress of achievement of
the transport strategy against agreed progress milestones. To encourage this process the EU SBS
programme will trigger a possible grant in the form of financial assistance of some €65m over the next
4 years. The role of the TEN-T project has been to get each subsector to agree a series of indicators
that will be used to measure progress towards improvement in the transport system in Ukraine, set as
“targets to be achieved”, within the overall transport strategy.
It is therefore necessary for each subsector to agree with the project to specific, achievable and
realistic targets, in a manner that is acceptable to secure funding from the EC.
Naturally this is a difficult task and time consuming for all participants. However, through the work
done by the project in explaining the process and the reasons for the decisions the indicators were
agreed, the financing agreement was drafted and the schedule for further consultations with Ukrainian
authorities and EU has been set. The financing agreement is due to be signed by the end of this year.
In parallel the monitoring tools and explanatory notes have been generated by the project and update
of the baselines shall be carried out during the next period
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