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Transportation infrastructures meet an essential need: the flow of people and goods, crucial to both economic growth and poverty alleviation.

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Gabon: Project to rehabilitate the Libreville-Yaoundé road

07/06/2006

Gabon, a vast forestry country, is characterized by the low density of its population and its infrastructures, especially road transport. For this reason large urban areas are poorly connected to each other and to Libreville.

Nevertheless, road travel is the primary means of transport available to rural populations, especially for getting their crops and products to market; it is also a key component in the country’s regional integration.

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Senegal: Ziguinchor port dock reconstruction project

06/06/2006

Isolated from the rest of Senegal, the economy of Casamance (1.4 million inhabitants, 220,000 of whom live in the city of Ziguinchor) is severely disadvantaged because of its remoteness and the difficulty establishing trade with Dakar.

The sea link is therefore vital to Casamance: the 450-kilometre land route passes through Gambia, which means crossing the border twice and taking a ferry, or taking a circuitous route through Tambacounda that avoids Gambia but is 860 kilometres long.

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Vanuatu: Infrastructure improvement in secondary airports

07/06/2005

The Republic of Vanuatu is an archipelago made up of just over 80 islands located to the northeast of New Caledonia. It has approximately 190,000 inhabitants and a per-person GDP of about 1,300 dollars.

For the past several years, the GDP has been growing slower than the population and the country, much like its South Pacific neighbours, has seen signs of out of control urban growth appear, especially in the capital, Port Villa.

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