A Review of Highway Agencies in the South Asia Region

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A Review of Highway Agencies in the South Asia Region Acknowledgements “A Review of Highways Agencies in South Asia Region” has been prepared for the World Bank Transport Anchor Group (TWITR) in Washington, which administers and manages the Transport Research Support Program (TRSP), funded by DFID, the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom Government. The Task Team would like to acknowledge the overall guidance and support from Mr. Michel Audigé, Sector Manager and Mr. Ben L. J. Eijbergen, Lead Transport Specialist, Transport, South Asia Region. The task team wishes to thank Mssrs. Justin Runji, Senior Transport Specialist, AFTTR and Simon David Ellis, Senior Transport Economist, for quality and peer-reviews. The task team would like to thank ECORYS Nederland B.V. and ICRA Management Consulting Services Limited (IMaCS), who were engaged for carrying out data collection, analysis, case studies and developing a major part of this study report. The task team highly appreciates support from Mssrs. Ahmad Luqman Sarwar, Ahmed Faruque , Ajit Pawar, G.C. Tallur, Keshav Thapa , Prem C. Sharma, R. K. Jain, and S. Arunachalam as well as Ms. Pradeepa Jayaratne and for their support in collecting data in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Ms. Ritu Sharma and Mr. Rajesh B. S. Dongol provided excellent administrative and logistical support. The task team also wishes to thank colleagues from South Asia transport team Mssrs. Ashok Kumar, Jean-Noel Guillossou, Zafar Iqbal Raja, Ishtiaque Ahmed, Surendra Govinda Joshi, Farhad Ahmed, Mohi Uz Zaman Quazi and Ms. Amali Rajapaksa for helping with the data collection and providing insights of agencies in their countries. The task team would like to extend special thank to Ms. Jacqueline J. Dubow, Program Coordinator, TWITR, who helped immensely in advising the TRSP and trust fund requirements. The team is also grateful to the Indian Roads Congress for organizing the stakeholder workshop to seek feedback. 6
A Review of Highway Agencies in the South Asia Region Executive Summary Preamble Explosive growth in demand for passenger and freight transport in the South Asia region, driven by high economic growth, has put the spotlight squarely on ensuring enhanced delivery of infrastructure and services. Accordingly, many South Asian governments plan to increase investments manifold and have launched large infrastructure development programs. Apart from mobilizing financial resources, a major challenge they face is the capacity constraints of their implementing agencies in ensuring timely and cost effective implementation of these programs. The road sector is a priority for all South Asian governments and highways agencies also face similar capacity constraints. It is, therefore, imperative to assess capacity and performance of the highway agencies, so that policy reforms and large investment programs can accordingly be planned by the policy makers and development partners in the region. This assessment is also critical to identify the appetite of these agencies towards the reforms needed for the successful and sustainable implementation of the programs. There is also a need to find innovative ways to reform these road agencies and perhaps revisit their institutional structure and functions in the longer run. The Study: Objective, Scope and Methodology The objective of the study is to help governments and policy makers in identifying reforms that are required to modernize and strengthen the capacity and performance of their road agencies to deliver large investment programs through performance monitoring as a tool. A review of the highway agencies in the region has been undertaken to suggest: (i) indicators to assess their capacities and performance; and (ii) a roadmap to improve performance in key functional areas of the agencies. The scope of study included a review of a sample of highway agencies from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. This sample included national and provincial level highway agencies as well as road corporations. In India, the focus was on the state-level highway agencies. This study also incorporates findings from earlier studies commissioned by the World Bank. The methodology covered the following five steps: Step 1: Literature Review The literature review provided the framework for the analysis in this study; the World Road Association (PIARC) framework was used to this end. The framework incorporates two dimensions: the organizational type of the highway agency and the stage of development of the road network, that is, birth, growth, upgrading, and maturity covering separation of client and producer organizations and their corporatization. Step 2: Data Collection Data collection was focused on the information that could help to assess the current capacity and performance of highway agencies as well as to understand the operating environment and challenges faced by them. As part of this phase, in-depth face-to-face interviews were also conducted with some of the highway agencies to gain a better understanding of their functioning and performance. Step 3: Review of International Good Practices Highway agencies in South Africa, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia were reviewed. These countries have, in the course of their development, faced challenges similar to those being faced by the highway agencies in the South Asia region currently. These agencies have 7
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