Planning of National Transport Infrastructure
In the Islamic Countries
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1 Policy Objective
1.8 Establish a long-term master plan to guide rational and complementary development of
all modes;
1.9 Keep Government of Uganda policy on sector regulation under review so as to support
the new commercial environment;
1.10 Promote greater integration of transport and land use planning in Kampala and other
urban areas. In particular, seek to reduce the need for motorised transport in Kampala
City centre, and provide a safe environment for pedestrian and non-motorised transport;
1.11 Use internal revenues to finance Government current expenditures and infrastructure
maintenance, while negotiating with international donors to help finance upgrading and
rehabilitation of infrastructure;
1.12 Promote improved capacity of the local consulting and contracting sector, including the
performance of labour-based maintenance;
1.13 Maintain high-quality trading links through the Northern and Central Corridors to the
ports of Mombasa and Dar is Salaam;
1.14 Help reform and simplify customs procedures and costs;
1.15 Promote development of a new Kampala Inland Port;
1.16 Contribute actively to regional co-operation in transport within the East African
Community and the COMESA;
1.17 Promote equal opportunities for women in employment and provision of services;
1.18 Ensure that all transport development projects are subject to environmental impact
assessments (EIA’s) approved by the National Environmental Management Authority.
Source: MoWT (2008a)
The level of involvement of private sector in transport planning decision making is considered
to be good by those in Government, yet the policy objective seeks to improve it. Indeed, there
are not many examples of successful PPP projects in the transport sector in Uganda and the few
ones include the outsourcing the operation of Ugandan Railways to the Rift Valley Railways
company which became a failure and operations reverted back to Government in 201834,
management of driving permits by Face Technologies Ltd and is still on-going, and provision of
ferry transport services to Kalangala islands by Kalangala Infrastructure Services.
Figure 22: Rift Valley Railways Uganda
Source: ‘The Ugandan’ 8th April 2018
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