Improving Rural Transport Services: Madagascar

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Improving Rural Transport Services Madagascar

• Transport Forum
• Washington
• March 9, 2005
• Susanne Holste

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Promotion of IMT - Madagascar

• MITA
• French -- moyens intermédiaires de transports
  améliorés
  
• Malagasy -- overcoming obstacles
• Component of APL (US6m)
• Small projects
• Action research
• Training and networking
• Spot improvement of waterways and jetties

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Promotion of IMT - Madagascar

• Institutional set-up
• MITA network of partners
• Core group of 20 organisations
• National and international NGOs
• Private sector, public sector, credit, etc.
• Implementation through the Rural transport unit
  of Transport Sector Project

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Promotion of IMT - Madagascar

• Problems encountered
• Govt/Net Lack of institutional memory
• Govt Reluctance to delegate authority
• Govt Inflexibility to adopt pilot approach
• Net Lack of powerful, strategic partners
• Net Descending spiral of under-achievement and
  weakness
  
• WB Reluctance to cancel component

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Promotion of IMT - Madagascar

• Remember MITA means overcoming obstacles!
• Greater autonomy for the MITA secretariat
• Restructuring of the APL, greater autonomy for
  the implementation unit
  
• Relaunch of the component

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Thank you!