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5.3 Governance
Roles
The institutional structure for transport infrastructural planning in the field of roads, railways,
airports and ports57 comprises three main actors: the Plan and Budget Organisation (PBO), the
MRUD (and its affiliated organisations) and the external certified experts. The role of each actor
is schematically presented in the graph below and described in what follows. The field of urban
transport is not included among MRUD competences and its governance is characterised by a
different structure, which is presented at the end of this section.
Figure 5.3: Governance of transport project appraisals in Iran58
Source: CSIL.
57 International Business Publications, 2016. Iran. Transportation Policy and Regulations Handbook , p. 53.
58 Except local transport projects
The PBO prepares the national annual budgetand
includes in it a priority list of national projects
In addition, it assigns anannual budget to single
MRUD-organisations to fund other projects
For government-based projects, MRUD-organisations
are in charge of performing APPRAISALS
PBO
HANDBOOK
on
Unit Values
PLAN AND BUDGET
ORGANISATION (PBO)
MINISTRY OF ROADS AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT (MRUD) and
AFFILIATED ORGANISATIONS
RAI
PMO CDTIC
Others
APPRAISALS are externalised to externalconsultants picked from PBO’s
List, who perform them based on PBO’s Guidelines and Handbook
Review by the Working Group on Evaluationand Approval of Projects(with
members from MRUD,the relevantMRUD-organisation,academia,etc.) for
national projects (investments funded through the general budget)
Review by internal experts of MRUD-
organisations for those investments funded
through the yearly budget allocated to them
Quality review on the APPRAISALS
for final approval
In case of PPP,the detailed APPRAISAL
is a task of the private investor