text: 5r. The Gtobal Strale8y for the Decade (Doc. E/CN.l4l125, ElCN.L4/Trans/L41')envlsaged certaln responslblllttes for Afrlcan Gove!.noents vis-i-vls the Decade.Ihe very deflnLtlon of the strategy says ghat the princlpaL goal nust be,lnter alla, Lnternatlonal co-openatlon adong lhe African States in the fleld oftransport and communlcatlong (see para. t2). Regardlng lhe mechanlsns for thel@plenentatj,on of the Decade, lhe saEe docunent ln para. 20 only describes theanrangeoents at the subregLonal and regional levels slnce it assudes !ha! 'teach 0overn6ent !r1Ll, no doub! create its own lnstruEents". FlnalLy, thesDrategy enirusts the regponslblLlgy for ihe noblllzatlon of resources !oStates when it says the resource mobillzation will have t,o lake place ,'flrsb and foremost at the naElonal levrl'r (para. 2r). t6. When we look at the lhree above responslbllllies, we llnd that sone progresa haE been nade 1n inlernallonal co-openatlon. With ttte creatlon of the preferential lrade Area of Eastern and Soulhern Africa (pTA) and t,he Economic ComnunLty olCentral Afr.ican Slates, only the slx countrles of North Afrlca ape wlthout afrade grouplng. Because these two groupings ere pelatlvely rlew, thej,r lmpac!on co-operatlon in tranEpor! and comnunlcations has not yet been considerable.other subregional grouplngs, such as the Economlc Comnunlty ofl l.lest AfpicanSfates (ECoWAS), the West Afrlcan Economlc ConDunlty, the Southern African LI/ Conference of African l4lnlsters of Transport and Communlca .ons (Ca1rb, March 196J), Parls Round-Table (June 1981),S1xth and Seventh l,teetlngs of the Inter-agency Coonlltee, eEc,-t1 - Developoen! Co-oidlnatlon Con{erense, the lbno Rlver tn1on, the Coonunautd Econonique des Pays des G!'andE Lacs, the organlsalion pour la nlse en val€ur du Fleuve S6n6gat, etc. have to some degree successfully pronoted the developE€nt of transport and coDnunLcatlons ln lhelr respectj'va 3ubre8lona. 17. The sade success' however, cannot be claloed as regards Ehe establishEent of natlona] roachlnery for the D€cade. Of course' Covernnen!€ have contl'nued to lDplenent thelr proJects; but Chls le sttU under the structures and proceduneg tha! has alwaye existed; there has nog been establ'ished, at the naclonaf lavel' a nachlnery for nonltorlng the progress of lhe Decade proJects. Ii ls the absence of such a dachlneny whlch has led to the Sreat dlfflcultles that the
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the implementation of a strategy for the decade, focusing on international cooperation, transportation, and communication in Africa. It highlights the progress made in forming regional groupings and organizations, but notes the lack of a national machinery for monitoring the progress of projects. The text seems to be concerned with the development of infrastructure and systems to facilitate economic growth and cooperation.