Ethiopian Poverty Reduction and Transport Strategy Review
The strategic objective of Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) long term development plan is to anchor transport policies and strategies in national strategies for poverty reduction, so as to enable the transport sector contribute f...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Addis Ababa
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17774 |
| Summary: | The strategic objective of Sub-Saharan
Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) long term
development plan is to anchor transport policies and
strategies in national strategies for poverty reduction, so
as to enable the transport sector contribute fully to
pro-poor growth and poverty reduction. To this end, many SSA
countries have conducted the Poverty Reduction and Transport
Strategy Review (PRTSR) workshops to assess and review the
coherence and link between their poverty reduction
strategies and transport strategies and policies. This
report presents the processes and the outcomes of the three
workshops held between July and September 2007 that reviewed
Ethiopia's road sector policy/programs and PASDEP. The
first workshop was conducted from 26 - 28th July 2007. In
this workshop, stakeholders extracted relevant information
from the A Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to
End Poverty (PASDEP) regarding goals, objectives and targets
as well as the difficulties on access and mobility. They
also identified the interventions concerning transport
infrastructure and services in the priority economic and
social sectors, population groups, and cross-cutting issues.
They also reviewed the PASDEP and its treatment of transport
related issues; the second workshop was conducted from 17 -
19th August 2007. During this workshop, participants were
able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of
Ethiopia's road policy/ programs in terms of its
contribution to poverty reduction. They also gave
suggestions on how the road sector policy/programs might be
improved to better contribute to poverty reduction; and the
third workshop was conducted from 14 - 16th September 2007.
In this workshop stakeholders assessed the current
institutional arrangements and mechanisms for policy
dialogue and formulations of both PASDEP and the road sector
policy/programs. Based on the findings of the workshops, the
stakeholders also designed an action plan that can influence
the adoption of policies and strategies that links
transport/road sector with poverty reduction. |
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