SLIDE 1 Africa Australia Infrastructure Conference
Africa Infrastructure Sector Overview of Africa's Roads and Highway Systems
Presentation by:
- Hon. Franklin Bett, EBS, MP.
Minister for Roads, Kenya
SLIDE 2 Roads Sector Management - Gains Made
- Institutional Reforms in Africa have
generally moved well
- Several countries have instituted secondary
and sustainable sources for road financing, supported by Fuel Tax (Road Maintenance Levy)
- Majority of road networks in Sub-Saharan
African countries are showing marked signs
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Trans-African Road Corridors
Corridor Description Length (km) Highway 1 Cairo- Dakar 8,640 Highway 2 Algiers – Lagos 4,500 Highway 3 Tripoli – Windhoek 8,610 Highway 4 Cairo – Gaborone 8,860 Highway 5 Dakar – N’djamena 4,500 Highway 6 N’djamena – Djibouti 4, 220 Highway 7 Dakar – Lagos 4,010 Highway 8 Mombasa – Lagos 6,260 Highway 9 Beira – Lobito 3,520 Total length (km) 54,120
The Trans- African Highway system consists of Nine (9) main corridors:
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- Africa is known to be one of the richest
continents in natural resources, but the resources remain untapped due to transportation challenges.
- Africa Region’s trunk road network comprises
some 52,000 km of trade corridors linking seaports to economic hinterlands.
- More than $200 billion worth of Africa’s annual
trade is carried on only 10,000 km of it’s corridors.
Trans-African Road Corridors
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Trans-African Road Corridors
SLIDE 6 Africa’s Missing Links
Internal Country Links
- This category should be prioritized by respective
governments
- Regional Economic Communities (e.g. SADCC, COMESA,
ECOWAS,EAC) should actively review possible funding
- ptions available to national governments.
Missing inter-country links
- Viable links should be financed from external organizations
that pay special attention to corridors with specific regional development profiles (eg African Development Bank)
- Should be supported by the respective Regional Economic
Communities in the application for funding, agreement on common standards in design, procurement, construction and supervisory services.
SLIDE 7 LAPSSET: Additional Corridor in Kenya
- One of the Missing Links identified in the Trans-African
Highway System
- Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia are investing in the new
corridor across Africa’s belt.
- The Transport Corridor will connect Kenya’s deep port in
Lamu to Southern Sudan, Ethiopia and onwards to Central Africa.
- The corridor will consist of:
- Oil Pipeline – 1,700 km (South and Turkana to Lamu)
- Road – 1,800 km (including link to Ethiopia)
- Railway – 2,300 km (including Ethiopia branch line)
- When complete, LAPSSET will form part of a ‘Land Bridge’
connecting the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans
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SLIDE 9 LAPSSET is a ‘Kenya Vision 2030’ flagship project, with the following objectives:
- Foster transport linkage between Kenya, South
Sudan and Ethiopia.
- Dynamic promotion of regional socio-economic
development along the transport corridor especially in the Northern, Eastern, North- Eastern and Coastal parts of Kenya.
- Economic development of the region through
enhanced cross-border trade.
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LAPSSET – Development Objectives
SLIDE 10 LAPSSET Road Corridor in Kenya
Nadapal :1270 km
SLIDE 11 Africa’s Highway System: What are the Challenges?
- Road Transport Infrastructure in Africa is still
lagging other regions.
- Inefficiencies in the Transport Chain - it costs
three times more to transport a 20 foot container from Mombasa to Kampala (600 miles) than from China to Mombasa (6,000 miles).
- Institutional disparities in urban and rural mobility.
- Road Traffic Accidents is a leading cause of
mortality and public health concern.
SLIDE 12 What are the Challenges?
- If unchecked, deaths and disability from Road
Traffic Accidents will cause an even greater toll on African economies.
- Traffic crashes affect mostly the poor and
vulnerable groups.
- Traffic Congestion - rapidly becoming a major
development problem in cities and urban areas.
SLIDE 13 What needs to be done?
Africa needs to:
- Spend about 2% of it’s GDP every year to
improve transport infrastructure connectivity.
- Complete Institutional Reforms in Roads Sector
Management.
- Increase Rural Accessibility and develop urban
transport services.
- Preserve developed networks - put more
emphasis on maintenance efficiency and effectiveness rather than new roads.
SLIDE 14 What needs to be done?
- Address funding gaps for road transport using
- Infrastructure Bonds (where appropriate)
- Concessionary Loan Schemes
- Private Sector Finance
- Employ alternative delivery options, including
Performance Based maintenance contracting.
- Funding development of missing regional links.
- Adoption of harmonized standards for cross
border corridors.
SLIDE 15 What needs to be done?
- Encourage Private Sector investment on viable
highway sections through PPP.
- Build internal capacity for road management
- Invest in transit and trade facilitation instruments
to simplify and harmonize cross border procedures.
- Liberalize road freight services to enable self
regulation of players.
- Mobilize funds to construct missing links within
the Trans-African Highway System.
SLIDE 16 What needs to be done?
- Improve Road Safety Standards and
enforcement.
- Control Overloading , including adoption of
harmonized axle load limits
- Use of appropriate technology to address
escalating unit costs for construction and maintenance.
- Build local capacity in road asset financing,
construction and management.
SLIDE 17 Required Spending in Transport Infrastructure
Source: AfDB
To meet Africa’s desired connectivity standards, Africa needs to invest on development of road infrastructure some US$ 13 billion every year for the next 10 years. Currently, the Infrastructure gap in Africa is estimated at US$ 300 billion, and is growing.
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Required Spending in Transport Infrastructure
Mode Cost Estimates (US$ millions p.a.) Roads Regional 2,678 National 2,877 Rural 2,477 Urban 2,147 Other Modes Railways 776 Ports 876 Airports 856 Totals Total 12,689 % of GDP 2
Source: World Bank
SLIDE 19 Africa’s Opportunities
- Road infrastructure connectivity enhancement
will facilitate the exploitation of Africa’s vast natural resources, while contributing significantly to its GDP growth.
- Africa’s infrastructure funding gap provides a
great opportunity for public and private investment.
- Africa’s fortunes can change rapidly with
concerted investment efforts in transportation infrastructure.
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The End Thank You
