Implementing Second Generation Road Funds -- Lessons Learned
Tools
SSATP Technical Note
November 30, 2000
Road Asset Management
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Ajay Kumar
SSATP, The World Bank
Africa Transport Technical Note No. 31
The note is based on a review of experience with the operation of second-generation Road Funds in Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Zambia. Findings of this review are based on an assessment of the structure, and process of setting up, and implementing the Road Funds, as well as an assessment of the objective achievements to date. While all countries have not moved at the same pace, they have progressed to various stages to introduce institutional, and financial reforms, in the spirit of the Road Management Initiative. Lessons suggest that common among the reviewed countries, were incremental user charges being collected for road maintenance, managed by autonomous Roads Boards, clearly separating financing, from executing functions. Though funding for maintenance shows consistent increases, the amounts are still short of total requirements. It is important to note that Roads Funds Boards arrangements represent progress on management, accountability, transparency, and increased awareness on the need to address long neglected road maintenance needs, and this is expected to result in efficiency gains in the long run. In addition, revenue-raising through Road Funds, should match absorptive capacity, rather than identified maintenance expenditure needs.
Road Maintenance
Road transportation systems
Road User Charges
Roads economic aspects
Funds
institutional reform
Financial regulation
Monitoring & evaluation
Autonomy of executing agencies
Management developmentaccount
accountability
accounts
audited accounts
auditing
audits
bills
budgeting
bureaucracy
capital cities
car ownership
constituency
cost sharing
discretionary powers
districts
Expenditure
financial reforms
framework
fuel
government agencies
Government departments
institutional arrangements
institutional capacity
Legislative framework
local contractors
main roads
Ministry of Finance
national level
National Roads
political interference
quality of work
rehabilitation
reporting
Resource allocation
resource allocations
RMI
Road Authority
road conditions
Road Fund
Road Funds
road improvement
road improvements
Road Maintenance
Road Maintenance Initiative
road management
ROAD NETWORK
road systems
Road User
Road User Charges
Road Users
roads
sharing
tractors
transparency
Transport
urban roads
