General proceedings - Association mondiale de la Route

greater part is from a World Bank credit. At least 40% of a project cost must be for wages
and at least 40% of the workers must be women. The Local Government Authorities provide
supervision for the projects. Communities had the liberty to choose whatever projects they
needed and 65% of them were road projects. Communities have benefited by getting access
and employment in the road projects, which has reduced poverty in their areas. People
employed in the projects have developed skills but lack of simple equipment has remained a
big challenge to implementing road works.
Highlights of the presentation:
• Communities contribute at least 20% of project costs.
• At least 40% of workers are required to be women.
• At least 40% of project costs must be for wages.
• The projects have created employment and provided access roads that have assisted
reduce poverty in the rural areas.
• Communities have developed skills in labour-based technologies for road works.
• Simple equipment are essential for success implementation of roadworks using labour
based technology.
Title: Sustainable Road Financing in Developing Countries: A Pragmatic Cost -
Revenue Model
Authors: Charles Amoatey, Dr. F. Weiler, A. Wagner, Dr. S. Thielmann
Presenter: Charles Amoatey (pictured), Research Assistant, University of Stuttgart,
Germany
The presentation was on a pragmatic cost-revenue
model for estimating road network costs and road
sector revenues. Ghana and Namibia were used as
case studies where it was observed that in spite of
their revenues being able to meet the maintenance
needs, they were only able to finance 76% and 43%
of the life cycle costs respectively. It was also
observed that only about half of the road user
contributions in Ghana went to roads. The presenter
states that it is important to have performance indicators to measure road sector performance
in terms of revenue generation and allocation and its coverage. It is estimated that 1.5 -3.0%
and 4.5 – 6% of GDP allocation would be needed for annual maintenance and network life
cycle costs respectively. The presenter recommends reduction of the size of road networks to
an affordable size in cases where funding is inadequate.
Highlights of the presentation:
• The cost-revenue model is developed in MS Excel software.
• Maintenance needs including Backlog are determined using unit costs for different
activities and an administrative cost of 5% of the total road costs is assumed.
• The model ignores contributions from Donors since it focuses on internal generated funds
i.e. road users paying for the services and general budget allocations to the roads sector.
39