Governance of Transport Corridors in OIC Member States:
Challenges, Cases and Policy Lessons
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SECTION 2: GOVERNANCE OF TRANSPORT CORRIDORS IN OIC MEMBER
COUNTRIES
4 Governance of Transport Corridors from a National Perspective
This Chapter concentrates on governance of transport corridors from a national perspective. To this
end, a literature search was carried out focused on transport governance in OIC member countries. In
addition, a targeted survey was carried out focused on transport governance in OIC member countries.
Relevant aspects of the conceptual framework, with its seven governance domains, have been used to
assess corridor governance in OIC member countries. Summarised results of the literature review and
the survey are presented in this section, with more elaborate results of the survey and literature
review presented in Annex 3 and Annex 4 respectively.
4.1 Objectives and political support
Part of international transport corridors
Most countries included in the literature review indicate that their national transport system are part
of an international corridor. An example is Egypt that wants to promote the country as a hub of the
international trade between East and West. The country is planning an upgrade of the Mediterranean
Corridor by extending the expressway to the border with Libya and Palestine;
The link to the international corridors is confirmed by the results of the survey:
 The vast majority of the respondents (75%) indicate that the transport corridors in their country
are part of a larger international corridor.
Political support and international corridors in national transport policy
In many of the reviewed countries, international transport corridors are high on the political agenda.
For example, in Mozambique it is stated that the transport sector (and the related corridors) is one of
the driving forces of real and sustainable growth and development. In Uganda, the Northern Corridor
is a very important part of the overall economic strategy and regional integration is high on the list of
policy priorities. This is also reflected by that fact that the biggest part of the national budget is spent
on the transport sector.
This link between the international corridors and the transport policy is confirmed by the results of
the survey:
 Most respondents (67%) indicate that their national transport policies address international
transport corridors. Policy priority is also reflected by the fact that 87% indicated that corridor
development is high (25%) or very high (62%) priority.
In general, the transport corridors address a multitude of objectives provides an overview
of what objectives corridors address, according to the survey.