Improving Transport Project Appraisals
In the Islamic Countries
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Figure 5.4: Organisational chart of the Plan and Budget Organisation (PBO)
Source: Authors’ elaboration on Plan and Budget Organisation (Iran)62
The MRUD and its affiliated organisations (which all have internal planning departments) are in
charge of ensuring that transport project appraisals are carried out in line with the PBO
indications. To some extent, they are also directly responsible for performing some studies. As
mentioned above, the MRUD and its organisations are tasked in particular with the
responsibility to perform the pre-feasibility (corresponding to phase 0 of project appraisal). In
the case of government-based projects funded directly by the government annual budget, they
are responsible for the feasibility studies (phase 1) and detailed design (phase 2) as well. As a
matter of fact, MRUD-affiliated organisations frequently externalise the actual performance of
such studies to certified private companies, drawing from the list issued by PBO.
For EPCF and PPP projects, both the public and the private party can in principle be in charge of
the analysis under phase 1 and phase 2: no legal rule on this point is in place. However, the
MRUD and its affiliated organisations usually prefer to assign this task to the private sector, with
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