Transportation infrastructure is identified as one of the key focus area to drive
economic growth and sustainable poverty reduction in Ghana. This can be achieved via
the Ghana Transport Sector Improvement Project (TSIP).
The overarching development objective of the TSIP is to improve the management of transport
sector including road asset management of selected classified road networks in the
Brong-Ahafo, Northern, Upper East, and
Upper West Regions of Ghana.
The Project Development Objectives are to
- Reduce travel time on selected parts of the classified road network in Northern Ghana,
- Promote road safety, and
- Strengthen the institutional management of the transport sector.
These objectives will be achieved through targeted institutional reform and expenditure
reviews, the introduction of performance-based road contracting, and coordinated road
safety activities.
In support of these objectives, the project emphasizes social accountability and citizen
engagement as integral parts of the project design and implementation process as well as
the operationalization and maintenance of selected road networks. Citizen engagement
promotes community ownership of projects and incentivizes local participation in project
implementation. In advancing Social Accountability, the project intends to institute
/has instituted
deliberate initiatives for engaging project-affected communities on project-related
issues and to provide easily accessible mechanisms by which local communities can convey
their voices, concerns, and grievances about the project to the ministry and its subcontractors.
The mechanism for receiving and resolving project-related grievances will also facilitate
dissemination of information about the performance of contractors and other service providers
during and after project implementation, the source of funding and cost of project, project
duration, design and processes, and the effects of the projects on the livelihood of
community members.
The initiatives for citizen engagement and grievance redress mechanisms will include the
use of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) and web-based instruments to build
the necessary interface and relationship between contractors and service providers on
one hand and the road-user community on another. Specific to Grievance Redress Mechanisms,
GRM, the project intends to use an ICT-based system as a medium for receiving and addressing
project-related grievance and complaints.
To this end, the transport sector of Ghana is focused on providing “An integrated,
efficient, cost-effective and sustainable transportation system responsive to the
needs of society, supporting growth and poverty reduction and capable of establishing
and maintaining Ghana as a transportation hub of West Africa”.
