Proceedings of the 13th Meeting of the
Transport and Communications Working Group
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5. Roundtable Policy Debate Session
Mr. Mehran WINSTONE moderated the roundtable session. At the outset, Mr. Selçuk KOÇ,
Director at the COMCEC Coordination Office, made a short presentation on the responses of the
member countries to the Policy Questions circulated by the CCO.
After fruitful discussions and deliberations, the Working Group has come up with the following
policy recommendations2 to be submitted to the 35th Ministerial Session of the COMCEC for their
adoption.
 Policy Recommendation I: Developing guidelines for the preparation and
implementation of national transport master plans by taking into consideration
international best practices towards having more integrated and sustainable land and
transport plans and solutions.
 Policy Recommendation II: Identifying comprehensive and relevant Key Performance
Indicators for the effective monitoring and evaluation of the performance of transport
plans and their outcomes, and sharing the results with the relevant public and private
sector stakeholders.
 Policy Recommendation III: Improving the planning capacity of the OIC member
states by applying contemporary methods such as setting a vision with a set of social
and economic objectives.
 Policy Recommendation IV: Improving national transport infrastructure planning
process and encouraging public-private partnerships (PPPs) particularly for needs
assessment, encouraging investments, well-functioning operations and maintenance.
6. Utilizing the COMCEC Project Funding (CPF)
Mr. Burak KARAGÖL, Director at COMCEC Coordination Office delivered a presentation on
utilizing the COMCEC Project Funding (CPF) for the transport-related projects of the member
countries as well as the OIC institutions.
In the beginning, Mr. KARAGÖL informed the participants about the essentials of COMCEC
Project Funding. He explained the two instruments of COMCEC Strategy, namely Working
Groups and Project Funding. Then, he stated the relationship between Ministerial policy
recommendations, Strategy’s principles and objectives. He gave details about the activity-based
projects and research projects. Lastly, the main characteristics of COMCEC Project Funding such
as membership to the WGs, partnering with at least two member countries and meeting the
Project Preparation and Submission Guidelines were touched upon.
2 The Room Document is attached as Annex 3.