United Nations Transport and Communication Decade in Africa, 1978-1988 : co-financing meeting for projects in transport corridors of central Africa

When the United Nations Transport and Communications Decade was declared in 1978, it was expected to achieves certain priority objectives including the opening up of land-locked or semi-land locked countries, the intensification of intra-African trade, and to be a catalyst of an African common market and even an African economic community. These meetings were intended to bring the African countries together and have them meet with donors at forums where these countries could explain to the financiers the aims and objectives of their projects in detail, and where donors would be able to ask all sorts of questions for clarification but they would not be expected to make firm commitments on the spot, on any of the projects to be financed.