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underrepresented in TRACECA (LOGMOS Master Plan 2014). The corridor can benefit from
incorporating the private sector in the decision-making process and in corridor development. For
financial stakeholders, an investment Forum was held in 2010 and 2012 to promote TRACECA to
international financing institutions and transport operators. 200 participants attended the forum.
Since then, no investment forum has been held.
7.3.8 Capacity building: technical assistance and studies
Carry out studies and provide technical support.
Technical assistance is primarily being carried out for specific projects funded by the EU and in
collaboration with the PS and national secretaries (LOGMOS Master Plan, 2014). The master plan
suggests a more proactive approach, with the PS developing towards an observatory by being more
active with performance monitoring and project management.
Provide training and other capacity building.
Similarly, for capacity building and training, most of these projects were funded by the EU. In its past
various capacity building projects took place such as the Capacity Development for Senior Transport
Sector Officials in 2004 or the implementation of EU’s MoS for TRACECA in 2012/2013. The current
TRACECAMaster Plan suggests a need for trainingmeasures and institutional capacity building in both
the public in private sector.
7.3.9 Assessment of transport governance level
The seven corridor governance domains of the TRACECA Corridor, as presented in this section, are
ranked against the four defined corridor governance levels (information exchange; coordination;
cooperation; integration), as introduced in Table 2.9. The TRACECA corridor governance levels are
presented below.
Table 7.5 TRACECA governance levels
Governance domains Information Coordination Cooperation Integration
Corridor objectives and political
support

Legal framework 
Institutional framework 
Infrastructure: financing, planning and
programming

Corridor performance monitoring and
dissemination

Corridor promotion and stakeholder
consultation

Capacity building: technical assistance
and studies
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Source: consortium.
7.3.10 Conclusions
Despite a withdrawal of funding by the EU, there is still a strong basis in Central Eurasia for joint
development of the transport sector. The gains are well laid out in the most recently developed multi-
annual LOGMOS Action Plan (2014), which was adopted by the IGC as the strategic document for
TRACECA for the period of 2016-2026. Recommendation are specifically made for improving the
corridor governance infrastructure, which is conceived to be vital for further corridor development.
Measures relate to each of the seven governance domains and include more private sector