Coordination of Road Transport Investment Policies in Ghana

It came to light that road agencies and road related agencies must all be involved to ensure effective coordination. In addition, Government must demonstrate a strong commitment to coordination of road policy formulation process by ensuring that appropriated logistic support is made available to the road agencies. National Development Planning Commission should continue to make available to the road agencies a policy and planning framework for strategic planning of transport infrastructure. Steps must also be taken towards making the Ministry of Roads and Highways semi-autonomous so that its operations are not limited by the usual bureaucratic bottlenecks within government and civil service. This could be done by government passing a legislative instrument to that effect. It is believed that when these measures are adhered to, the extent of coordination in the formulation of road transport investment policies would be improved.