Improving Transport Project Appraisals
In the Islamic Countries
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in the OIC Member Countries, as well as to trigger a serious debate around the issues identified
and how better to address them.
Based on the above-mentioned main objective the following specific objectives are defined:
1. To identify the basic concepts and steps of the preparation, evaluation, and approval of
transport project appraisals and factors affecting their success.
2. To investigate the major and successful transport appraisal practices (outside the OIC
geography).
3. To describe the general situation related to the preparation, evaluation, and approval of
transport project appraisals in the OIC Member Countries and to analyse overall transport
appraisal experiences of selected six OIC Member Countries as case studies in detail.
4. To propose recommendations for enhancing better transport project appraisal practices
among OIC Member States.
For this study, a total of six case studies have been selected and three country visits have been
carried out. The case study countries are presented i
Table ES.0.1: Selected case studies and country visits
Selection Africa region Arab region Asia region
Case study and country visit Nigeria Jordan Iran
Case study Mozambique Saudi Arabia Afghanistan
Next to these case studies, a survey has been carried out focused on project appraisal in OIC
member countries and international practices on transport project appraisals have been
assessed.
A conceptual framework
In order to enhance a systematic approach, a conceptual framework for project appraisal in the
transport sector has been developed, based on the World Bank (WB) framework for assessing
Public Investment Management (Rajaram et al., 2010) further tailored for the purpose of this
project. The framework is based on a number of institutional and technical aspects, influencing
project appraisal practices in the transport sector. resents the conceptual
framework, including its seven aspects, of which five aspects are related to the institutional
dimension and two to the technical dimension. This conceptual framework has been used
throughout this project, as a structuredmeans to collect information per country and case study,
as well as in the survey.