Ghana Urban Mobility Tender

This project which aims at improving urban mobility and accessibility in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area GAMA builds upon initiatives previously promoted by the World Bank WB and the Agence franaise de Dveloppement AFD. SECO support will strengthen the capacities of an array of selected beneficiaries in GAMA in issues as public transport planning and traffic management. Besides a collaboration between EPFL and KNUST University in Ghana will be established so as to train students in the field of urban mobility and accessibility thus further contributing to reinforcing the sector in Ghana. While most SECOs resources will be earmarked for institutional strengthening targeted quick wins investments are also planned.BackgroundIn Ghana the urban transport sector generally performs poorly with traffic congestion as the most serious problem. There are almost no modern fuel efficient medium-size or large buses anywhere except in GAMA where a Bus Rapid Transit system is being started. A strong decentralization process is ongoing and responsibilities for urban transport are almost entirely allocated to the local governments the so-called Metropolitan Municipal or District Assemblies or MMDAs. In GAMA the MMDAs have taken a major step by creating in 2014 an agency the Greater Accra Public Transport Executive GAPTE in charge of organizing and modernizing public transport services and of formulating and guiding the implementation of a long term mobility strategy for GAMAObjectivesThe declared overarching project goal is to improve accessibility and mobility in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area.