Planning of National Transport Infrastructure
In the Islamic Countries
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As an example, the Millennium Challenge Account Senegal (MCA – Senegal), the High Authority
of the Léopold Sédar Senghor Airport (HAALSS), the High Authority for the Coordination of
Maritime Safety and Protection of the Marine Environment (HACSSPE) report to the Prime
Minister’s Office. The case of the MCA – Senegal is emblematic because its final objective is to
accelerate growth to reduce poverty. To do so, the fund has, among its intervention sectors,
transport with the aim to rehabilitate strategic roads to open up socio-economic areas and
contribute to the development of a network of cross roads. This will lead to open up areas with
high production potential and allow more open access to markets.
On the other hand, Major Projects Cluster (Infrastructure Council, General Delegation for the
Promotion of the Urban Poles of Diamniadio and Lac Rose) report to the Presidency of the
Republic’s Cabinet. Furthermore, other ministries (beyond the three charged with
infrastructure and transportation, MITTD, MTTA and MPEM) have tasks, related to its primary
mandate, concerning NTI planning for the management and planning of transport sectors.
Related ministries are the Office of the Minister in charge of Monitoring the SEP; the Ministry of
the Home Affairs and Public Security (National Police); the Ministry of the Army Forces
(National Gendarmerie and Navy); the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Planning; the Ministry
of African Integration, New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the Promotion
of Good Governance; the Ministry of Investment Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships and
the Development of Government Teleservices (APIX) (LPST 2016-2020, 2016).
Besides the national borders, there are also sub regional and international public organizations
that Senegal is member of and that play an essential role in the administration of the
infrastructure sector. In primes, the West African Economic Union (WAEMU) and the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) prescribe that community regulation should be
transposed to the national level. This is also confirmed by the Ministry of Land Transportation
and Infrastructures (2018), who attributes a high importance to the extent of implementing the
ratified international agreements into Senegal’s transport planning. This occurs even though
international transport related agreements have low influence on planning of national transport
infrastructure.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime
Organization (IMO) ensure the monitoring and control of compliance with international safety
and security standards, whose application in Senegal is an essential factor of economic
competitiveness at international level.
As it can be seen by this brief overview of institutional and organizational factors, Senegal lacks
the presence of an integrated land use and transport planning authority.
The development of mandates, vision and mission statements is the major part of the SEP that
provides direction for the management of the transport sector and is seen as a strategy of
rupture whose implementation shall put Senegal on a new trajectory of economic and social
development in order to realize the vision of "An emerging Senegal in 2035 with social solidarity
and the rule of law" (LPST 2016-2020, 2016).
The SEP is structured as follows
 A twenty-year vision