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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>My name is Dieter Schelling. I
am a Rural Transport Specialist working at the World Bank. I am also the
anchor of the Rural Transport Thematic Group of the World bank.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Here my comments to the documents
provided:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Stakeholder Chart:
</STRONG>The chart is good but needs to mention the Ministry's of Health and
Education (or their departments at local government level). The delivery
of health and education services depends very much on a functioning rural
transport system. This both in terms of provisions to the facilities, such
as doctors, teachers, drugs, teaching material, salaries, suppervision etc., as
well as access by the population to these facilities.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Methodoloy to involve all
stakeholders</STRONG>: This must be done in the form of appropriate
workshops and fora at the various levels. The best tool to ensure
stakeholder involvement, in my view, are regional or district development plans
or transport master plans. These must be prepared in an iterative
bottom-up and top-down process concidering national rural development and
transport plans. The RTTP (Africa Rural Travel and Transport Program) has
developed tools for rural transport policy development. Such policies must
address rural transport services.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Conditions that influence the
development of rural transport services: </STRONG>This is the crux of the
matter. We need to understand the factors that promote RTS and those that
impede. Out of these we must identify those that Government (or donors) can
influence and those which they can't. It would be very usefull if any of
you had good examples of interventions that actually worked and produced results
in terms of improved RTS. </FONT></DIV>
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