Governance of Transport Corridors in OIC Member States:
Challenges, Cases and Policy Lessons
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Meetings of the organs of the Authority
The organs of the Authority shall hold meetings as follows:
 The Council of Ministers shall meet once a year;
 The Executive Committee shall meet twice a year one meeting of which shall be held immediately
preceding the meeting of the Council of Ministers;
 The Technical/Specialised Committee and the Private Public Private Partnership Committee shall
meet at least once a year;
 Both the Council of Ministers and the Executive Committee may hold extraordinary meetings;
 All meetings ordinary or extraordinary shall be held, as may be agreed, in the territory of any of the
contracting parties;
 Chairpersons of the Council of Ministers, the Executive Committee and the other Committees shall
retain their functions during inter-session periods, until the next chairpersons assume their
functions;
 Each contracting party shall bear the cost for the participation of its delegation at regular and
extraordinary meetings of the organs of the Authority;
 The Council of Ministers, the Executive Committee and the other committees shall determine their
own rules of procedure for conducting business during meetings, including the election of office
bearers.
Participation of the local authorities and the private sector
The local authorities are presented in the various committees. The private sector is represented in the
Public-Private Partnership Committees.
One-stop shop concept in the corridor governance
The establishment of the Northern Corridor Coordination Authority (NCCA) is the implementation of
a one-stop shop concept in the governance of the Northern Corridor.
5.2.5 Infrastructure: financing, planning and programming
Sources of finance available to effectively ensure governance of transport corridors
According to article 10 of the Agreement, the resources of the Authority shall come from the following
sources:
 Contributions of contracting parties;
 Funding of specific activities by donor agencies;
 Exert a levy on goods loaded or unloaded at Mombasa Port or on goods leaving or entering any
customs post using the corridor itineraries as defined in this agreement and its protocols.
Provided that the levy shall be charged once only on a specified load of goods for one single
entry or exit transport operation taking place in the corridor. The levy shall be remitted to the
Permanent Secretariat on a monthly basis.
The accounts of the Authority shall be audited annually, in accordance with the Financial Rules and
Regulations by external auditors duly appointed for this purpose who shall submit their report to the
Executive Committee.
The levy on goods in particular is an interesting solution for the problem of financing the activities to
enhance the performance of the corridor. Obviously, the operators, and thus also the shippers, should
be convinced about the usefulness and efficiency of the Transit Transport Coordination Authority of
the Northern Corridor. It also puts pressure on the TTCANC to monitor performance of the corridor