INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT FOR REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND POVERTY ERADICATION continued Member States, private sector Member States Member States, SADC Feasibility study reports, business plans Majority of investment by private sector Guidelines on participatory infrastructure planning Guidelines on appropriate technologies Reports on new inland container depots and transhipment facilities Reports on ratified conventions Integrated national and regional transport policies By 2005 By 2006 By 2004 By 2004 By 2007 By 2006 By 2005 Carry out feasibility studies and marketing the development of missing links Promote public-private partnership investment in missing links Use of participatory approaches to infrastructure planning Use of appropriate technologies in transport infrastructure provision and maintenance Invest in intermodal facilities Ratify international conventions on intermodal transport systems Develop holistic transport policies Improve connectivity in the regional transport networks Improve accessibility for rural communities Promote the use of cost efficient transport infrastructure Base transport infrastructure investment decisions on the needs of the overall system To develop missing transport and communications links To provide appropriate levels of accessibility To promote integrated transport systems To promote integrated regional investment in transport and communications infrastructure A F R I C A N Member States, SADC S O U T H E R N Member States, NGOs, SADC Member States, SADC INDICATORS TIME FRAMES MEASURES STRATEGIES OBJECTIVES RESPONSIBILITY c) TRANSPORT PRIORITY INTERVENTION AREA: Infrastructure Support for Regional Integration and Poverty Eradication GOAL: To ensure the availability of a sufficient, integrated, efficient and cost effective infrastructure system that will support and sustain regional economic development, trade and investment for poverty alleviation TABLE 4.11 1 2 4 D E V E L O P M E N T C O M M U N I T Y