Mano River Union Road Assessment Programme

A common approach to assessing infrastructure risk and prioritising safer roads across four countries.

Location: Mano River Union
Client / partner: Mano River Union partners
Period: 2025–ongoing
RSAI’s role: Regional technical organization and corridor assessment partner

About the project

ManoRAP brings a regional perspective to road safety assessment in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire. RSAI supports a common evidence base for priority national and cross-border roads.

The programme applies iRAP methods alongside georeferenced inventory, traffic and road-user information to inform practical investment priorities.

Scope of work

Establish common corridor-assessment methods and data structures.
Compile infrastructure, traffic, crash and road-user exposure evidence.
Apply road coding, Star Ratings, blackspot identification and GIS risk mapping.
Develop corridor countermeasures and safer-roads investment priorities.

RSAI’s contribution

Regional technical organization and corridor assessment partner.

Project partners

Mano River Union partners.

Documented outputs and progress

A programme covering four connected national road networks.
The delivery scope includes corridor Star Ratings, risk maps and harmonised datasets.
Ranked countermeasures and investment recommendations support regional coordination.

Programme coverage and output scope are shown. No aggregate assessed distance or completed investment total is asserted.

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