Mali - Community Road Interconnection and Transport Facilitation Programme

Burkina Faso and Mali are two landlocked countries in West Africa. For their international trade, they mainly use the land corridors that link them to the seaports of neighboring coastal countries. As a result, the vitality of the economies of Burkina Faso (BF) and Mali (ML) is largely dependent on the state of their road corridors. The Abidjan-Bobo Dioulasso-Ouagadougou and Bamako-Man-San Pédro corridors give these two countries access to the ports of Abidjan and San Pédro for their international trade. On the entire route of these corridors, the sections in poor condition for which financing is being sought are located in Burkina Faso and Mali. These include the community road sections Bobo Dioulasso-Banfora-Frontière Côte d'Ivoire, including the Léraba bridge, and Bougouni-Garalo-Manankoro-Frontière Côte d'Ivoire. This situation contributes to increasing transport costs, putting both countries at a disadvantage, with some of the highest transport costs in the world. To remove certain obstacles to facilitating transport on the Abidjan-Ouagadougou Corridor, the program will rehabilitate and double the common bridge at the border between Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire. The UEMOA, at border level, for both corridors, through a Public-Private Partnership: (i) has built a new juxtaposed control post (PCJ) at the Léraba (BF-CI border); and (ii) plans, through the same mechanism, to build the PCJ at Manankoro (ML-CI border).The customs interconnection at the BF-CI border is up and running. The project primely contributes towards climate Adaptation result. As such 20% of the total approval is attributed as climate finance, out of which 16 million USD is adaptation finance.