Rodney Stickland

Rod Stickland’s professional background is in Civil Engineering and Town Planning with over 35 years of experience on a broad range of planning and transport related projects. He has particular expertise in project identification and evaluation, economic assessments, highway feasibility and planning studies, rural access issues, public transport systems, and impact studies.

He has considerable involvement with donor agencies (including the World Bank and ADB) both as mission member and staff consultant. He has successfully managed projects in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Pakistan and UK. Specifically, he has relevant experience of national and rural road investment strategy studies throughout Asia – including Nepal, Lao, China, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

Specific involvements in South and South-East Asia include: preparation of Transport Sector-Wide Approach Studies in both Lao PDR and Nepal; production of road sector priority investment plan (PIP) in Nepal (1996 & 2006); development and subsequent review of long-term strategic highway investment plan in Thailand; review and impact studies of rural road projects in Nepal and Pakistan; highway feasibility in Sri Lanka; rural road and accessibility studies in Vietnam and Nepal; two-year technical advisory services to Thai Government (NESDB); and involvement with the identification, preparation, appraisal and supervision of numerous World Bank transport and planning projects in China, Nepal, Lao PDR and Vietnam.

Rod has worked extensively in Asia over the past 25 years and has been based iIn Nepal for 15 years, where he was project manager on two long-term studies of the road sector involving the selection, prioritisation and evaluation of national and rural road projects. The latter of these studies involved an extensive analysis of rural accessibility using GIS techniques to assess the impact of various road development strategies on improving access to remote areas. He is currently Team Leader of a major project in Nepal focussed on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of rural infrastructure damaged during the decade-long insurgency and has previously undertaken, also for ADB, an update their Transport Sector Strategy and a review of their overall road investment programme in Nepal.