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2. To investigate the major and successful governance practices regarding transnational transport
corridors (outside the OIC geography);
3. To describe the general situation related to the governance of multinational transport corridors in the
OIC Member Countries and to analyse the governance experience of the selected six multinational
transport corridors in the OIC Member Countries in detail as case studies;
4. To propose recommendations for enhancing better governance practices for multinational transport
corridors among OIC Member States.
1.3 Methodological approach
The methodological approach for the study is built on two distinct phases, i.e. the data collection and
the synthesis phase. The data collection phase consists of literature review, surveys and field visits and
the synthesis phase consists of drafting conclusions and recommendations and the presentation of
results. More information on the methodological approach is presented in Annex 2.
Desk research provides the ingredients for developing a framework for governance of transport
corridors, based on international best practices. Results are presented in Chapter 2. Desk research also
includes a review of governance of transport corridors in OIC member countries. The survey has used
initial results from desk research, as defined above, and has formed an important tool in gathering
input form stakeholders, primarily form a national perspective of corridor governance. Results of desk
research and the survey are presented jointly in Chapter 4, with details presented in Annex 3 and 4.
A total of seven case studies have been selected and four country visits have been carried out. The case
study corridors and countries visited are presented i The case studies are organised in line
with the three governance levels (corridor level, regional level, national level) that are defined in the
Trade and Transport Corridor Management Toolkit (World Bank, 2014).
Table 1.1 Selected corridors for case studies and country visits
Corridor
governance
level
Africa region Arab region Asia region
Corridor level  Maputo Development
Corridor;
 Northern Transport
Transit Corridor;
 Abidjan-Lagos
Corridor Organization
(ALCO).
 TRACECA.
Regional level  UN-ESCAP – Central
Corridor;
 ASEAN maritime
corridor.
National level  Jordan Transit Corrido,
as part of UN-ESCWA
priority corridors
(M40).
Country visit  Maputo, Mozambique.  Amman, Jordan;
 Baku, Azerbaijan.
 Kazakhstan.
Source: Ecorys.
In the synthesis phase, the data collection results are analysed and project findings are reported. The
synthesis is presented in terms of conclusions and recommendations.