Youth engagement and skills acquisition within Africa's transport sector: promoting a gender agenda towards transitions into meaningful work
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Anthropology
Abstract
Acknowledging the importance of mobilising Africa's young women into the labour-force, this research addresses the specific impediments presented by a highly gendered transport and travel arena and the implications this has for girls' and women's current/future access to meaningful work. Women of all ages are discriminated against, both with regard to access and use of transport (which affects their access to skills acquisition and employment across all sectors) and with reference to their employment within the transport sector itself. Relevant skills acquisition at an early age, for safely navigating transport and more equitably seeking employment is essential if they are to break through such barriers.
We aim to understand and address these challenges through in-depth participatory research with young women of low socio-economic status in peripheral locations of Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia (one city-region per country), including piloting of skills-based interventions.
The research has three, interlinked strands:
a)The User Strand comprises research into improving young women's use of transport to access training programmes and employment, built around the following questions:
-What are the economic, social and infrastructural determinants of the transport ecology in which young women are located and how does it impact on their transport experiences and behaviours?
-How is young women's physical access to meaningful work and associated skills building shaped by their travel potential and access to transport (i.e. especially travel safety and security for women resident in low income areas)?
-What key skills do young women need if they are to travel safely to work and training opportunities (whether as pedestrians, as cyclists, or when negotiating public transport)?
-How can appropriate safe travel skills training be provided?
-What wider interventions are needed to support a safe travel skills programme [e.g. from government, transport unions, NGOs, private sector] i.e. with reference to the multiple layers of political, economic and socio-cultural decision-making processes?
b)The Employment Strand comprises research into improving women's access to skills (e.g. commercial driving, vehicle repair/ maintenance) to enable them to obtain more meaningful employment within the transport sector, built around the following questions:
- How have historical, social, political and economic legacies of planning and policy processes impacted on opportunities for women's employment in the transport sector?
-How can young women's aspirations to work in this sector be expanded and enhanced?
-What do young women perceive as the main barriers to skills acquisition and subsequent employment in the sector?
-What skills training can be provided to enable young women to play a more prominent role in the sector?
-What wider interventions are needed to support training programmes to improve women's employment in this sector [e.g. from government, unions, NGOs, the private sector]
c)The Action Research Strand builds on User and Employment Strand findings. It will pilot transport-related skills training for young women, to improve their access to employment [both directly, through employment in the transport sector and indirectly, through travel safety skills to enable them to travel to diverse employment opportunities].
Ihere will be small pilot action research projects in each country:
-One to assist women build skills as transport users [and thus access diverse employment opportunities within and beyond the transport sector]
-Up to 3 to assist women build skills towards employment in the transport sector.
Intensive monitoring and evaluation of this strand throughout its life will ensure key lessons are learned.
Through this work we will produce gender-sensitive transport/travel skills guidance for govt, private sector, NGOs + academia at local, national + international levels.
We aim to understand and address these challenges through in-depth participatory research with young women of low socio-economic status in peripheral locations of Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia (one city-region per country), including piloting of skills-based interventions.
The research has three, interlinked strands:
a)The User Strand comprises research into improving young women's use of transport to access training programmes and employment, built around the following questions:
-What are the economic, social and infrastructural determinants of the transport ecology in which young women are located and how does it impact on their transport experiences and behaviours?
-How is young women's physical access to meaningful work and associated skills building shaped by their travel potential and access to transport (i.e. especially travel safety and security for women resident in low income areas)?
-What key skills do young women need if they are to travel safely to work and training opportunities (whether as pedestrians, as cyclists, or when negotiating public transport)?
-How can appropriate safe travel skills training be provided?
-What wider interventions are needed to support a safe travel skills programme [e.g. from government, transport unions, NGOs, private sector] i.e. with reference to the multiple layers of political, economic and socio-cultural decision-making processes?
b)The Employment Strand comprises research into improving women's access to skills (e.g. commercial driving, vehicle repair/ maintenance) to enable them to obtain more meaningful employment within the transport sector, built around the following questions:
- How have historical, social, political and economic legacies of planning and policy processes impacted on opportunities for women's employment in the transport sector?
-How can young women's aspirations to work in this sector be expanded and enhanced?
-What do young women perceive as the main barriers to skills acquisition and subsequent employment in the sector?
-What skills training can be provided to enable young women to play a more prominent role in the sector?
-What wider interventions are needed to support training programmes to improve women's employment in this sector [e.g. from government, unions, NGOs, the private sector]
c)The Action Research Strand builds on User and Employment Strand findings. It will pilot transport-related skills training for young women, to improve their access to employment [both directly, through employment in the transport sector and indirectly, through travel safety skills to enable them to travel to diverse employment opportunities].
Ihere will be small pilot action research projects in each country:
-One to assist women build skills as transport users [and thus access diverse employment opportunities within and beyond the transport sector]
-Up to 3 to assist women build skills towards employment in the transport sector.
Intensive monitoring and evaluation of this strand throughout its life will ensure key lessons are learned.
Through this work we will produce gender-sensitive transport/travel skills guidance for govt, private sector, NGOs + academia at local, national + international levels.
Planned Impact
Our impact strategy is based on a co-production approach to research. Close collaboration with local communities, local CBOs/NGOs, national and international organisations and stakeholders from the outset and throughout the project is key to ensuring that findings are effectively and efficiently communicated to users in-country and beyond, and that such ownership results in them being taken up and promoted in policy and practice. Our NGO collaborator Transaid will play a significant role re skills training and communications.
Who will benefit: it will be necessary to ensure our research reaches a wide range of target audiences at an early stage to achieve maximum sensitisation. In addition to the girls and women who benefit directly through skills acquisition in our action research studies or as community co-investigators, this potentially includes all girls and young women in the study communities and across the study countries; private sector transport operators (e.g. more women accessing public transport to work); in-country ministries of employment, education, transport, women's and children's affairs; local NGOs/CBOs that we will work with in the field; Transaid and other international NGOs focused on transport, women's safety, women's employment and skills [e.g International Forum for Rural Transport and Development]; relevant bilateral and multilateral agencies such as ILO, UNWomen, the African Development Bank, World Bank, GiZ, UNICEF, DFID].
Why they might benefit: We envisage that short-term benefits [during the award period and up to one year after] will be mainly on a) the direct beneficiaries - young women who gain skills and improved access to meaningful work through the action study interventions, or through their training as community co-investigators and to a lesser extent on b) a wider set of potential in-country users and c) global users. In-country users [set b] will include government ministries [e.g. employment, education, women's and children's affairs] that are tasked to improve women's skill acquisition and support their empowerment through improved access to meaningful work, but also the transport ministries that need to improve women's transport and travel experiences and travel potential. It is particularly important that the labour and transport ministries come together to consider the significant interlinkages between women's access to meaningful work and the role of the transport sector in achieving this [i.e. both re women as transport users who need to safely access workplaces, and re women who through more visible skilled roles in transport operations act as role models that support wider employment empowerment efforts.] These sectors will also benefit from wider interactions with NGOs, the private sector and academic researchers through the conducive environment of our Country Consultative Groups [CCGs]. The private sector will benefit through access to more skilled women workers. Global users [set c] include Transaid, major international transport, employment and women's empowerment networks and the African Development Bank's gender unit [which is in the process of compiling gender-sensitive guidelines for its transport department]. Their attention will be drawn to the crucial importance of fostering a more visible place for girls and women, both as users and as skilled workers in the transport sector, and the crucial need for a more holistic, contextualised understanding of employment-transport interlinkages which operate at the nexus of public/private sector engagement.
Through the project period we will also work towards promoting longer term impact of the research, at community, national and global scales, through the networks we have initiated linking employment and transport sector policy makers, the private sector and practitioner communities.
Who will benefit: it will be necessary to ensure our research reaches a wide range of target audiences at an early stage to achieve maximum sensitisation. In addition to the girls and women who benefit directly through skills acquisition in our action research studies or as community co-investigators, this potentially includes all girls and young women in the study communities and across the study countries; private sector transport operators (e.g. more women accessing public transport to work); in-country ministries of employment, education, transport, women's and children's affairs; local NGOs/CBOs that we will work with in the field; Transaid and other international NGOs focused on transport, women's safety, women's employment and skills [e.g International Forum for Rural Transport and Development]; relevant bilateral and multilateral agencies such as ILO, UNWomen, the African Development Bank, World Bank, GiZ, UNICEF, DFID].
Why they might benefit: We envisage that short-term benefits [during the award period and up to one year after] will be mainly on a) the direct beneficiaries - young women who gain skills and improved access to meaningful work through the action study interventions, or through their training as community co-investigators and to a lesser extent on b) a wider set of potential in-country users and c) global users. In-country users [set b] will include government ministries [e.g. employment, education, women's and children's affairs] that are tasked to improve women's skill acquisition and support their empowerment through improved access to meaningful work, but also the transport ministries that need to improve women's transport and travel experiences and travel potential. It is particularly important that the labour and transport ministries come together to consider the significant interlinkages between women's access to meaningful work and the role of the transport sector in achieving this [i.e. both re women as transport users who need to safely access workplaces, and re women who through more visible skilled roles in transport operations act as role models that support wider employment empowerment efforts.] These sectors will also benefit from wider interactions with NGOs, the private sector and academic researchers through the conducive environment of our Country Consultative Groups [CCGs]. The private sector will benefit through access to more skilled women workers. Global users [set c] include Transaid, major international transport, employment and women's empowerment networks and the African Development Bank's gender unit [which is in the process of compiling gender-sensitive guidelines for its transport department]. Their attention will be drawn to the crucial importance of fostering a more visible place for girls and women, both as users and as skilled workers in the transport sector, and the crucial need for a more holistic, contextualised understanding of employment-transport interlinkages which operate at the nexus of public/private sector engagement.
Through the project period we will also work towards promoting longer term impact of the research, at community, national and global scales, through the networks we have initiated linking employment and transport sector policy makers, the private sector and practitioner communities.
Publications
Dungey C.E.
(2023)
Dangers in the third place: Walking, public transport and the experiences of young girls in Cape Town and Abuja
in School Journey as a Third Place: Theories, Methods and Experiences Around The World
Murphy E
(2023)
'No place for a woman': Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis
in Geoforum
Murphy E
(2023)
Driven out: women's employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis
in Journal of Gender Studies
Porter G
(2023)
The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis
in Journal of Transport Geography
Porter G
(2022)
Women, Work and Transport
Porter G
(2021)
Women's mobility and transport in the peripheries of three African cities: Reflecting on early impacts of COVID-19.
in Transport policy
Porter G
(2022)
Improving young women's access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid
in Transportation Research Procedia
| Description | • Our peer research method is a powerful tool for obtaining preliminary perspectives and identifying key questions for subsequent academic research. With the onset of the pandemic, the value of the peer research approach was further confirmed and enhanced in all three study cities. Without our direct links to the community collaborators whom we had trained in some basic research techniques at the start of the study, it would have been extremely difficult to continue work in the very low income locations where they reside. The economic and social stresses faced there in the early phases of pandemic lockdown were dire (job loss, illness and death, GBV etc). Many of our peer researchers wrote Covid mobility diaries in 2021, charting their im/mobility experiences: information vital for understanding of local conditions. Some noted the psychological benefits they gained from this work, in addition to the modest remuneration provided. [Published chapter; 2 book chapters in press] • Young women transport users face considerable challenges in all three study cities: dominant concerns in Abuja were theft, harassment and threat of kidnap, in Tunis sexual harassment and in Cape Town threats of theft, harassment and physical violence. When women have funds available they will pay for safer travel, especially after dark. Work with Sonke Gender Justice and SANTACO in Cape Town to sensitise male minibus-taxi operators re better treatment of women passengers was fruitful but needs further consolidation. Publications: Sustainability; Transport Research Procedia; Position paper; papers under review at Geoforum. Ongoing contribution to ITF/OECD youth transport paper. • The pandemic opened up new research questions regarding the impact of Covid on young women's transport use and access to services and livelihoods in Africa and the linkages between everyday mobility and the ethics of care, both at home and in wider community contexts [publications in Transport Policy 2021 and Mobilities 2022].Also new questions regarding gendered impacts of COVID-19 on socio-economic equality. • Women transport workers in customer-facing roles are few: they face violence and systematic stigmatization by passengers, taxi touts, male co-workers and local officialdom. They are time-poor and spatially dispersed so lack the associational solidarity that would promote lobbying for improved working conditions: greater support from transport unions is urgently needed. [Book chapter; Papers under review at Journal of Transport Geography and Journal of Gender Studies] • The pandemic required us to chart the changing mobility/transport context of each of the study cities and reshape our pilot skills interventions for women transport users and transport sector workers accordingly. The interventions have elicited very positive responses from training participants and suggest their potential for improving the experiences of women both as transport users and transport workers. E.g. In Abuja of 39 women workers we trained in transport management at the Abuja Urban Mass Transport Corporation, more than 10 have subsequently gained promotion to date. There is clearly significant demand for transport sector relevant skills training from a wide variety of institutions in Africa both within and beyond government, extending to the private sector, practitioners and community groups. |
| Exploitation Route | • We worked with peer researchers, communities, relevant government departments (including ministries of transport), major commercial transport operations and women's rights NGOs in our study locations - including through the Country Consultative Group meetings - to develop the pilot interventions aimed at improving women's experiences, both as transport users and as transport workers. These interventions, led by the NGO Transaid, and with support from in-country research teams, local NGOs and our peer researchers, are aimed at promoting economic development and welfare in the 3 DAC study countries. They are assisting women transport users to travel more safely [good examples being the safety on a motorcycle-taxi film and development of the Safe Taxi charter in Cape Town] and supporting women's opportunities to progress as professionals in the transport sector [for example through transport management training provided to major companies in Tunis and Abuja]. • There is substantial potential to build on these skills pilot training activities in the three study cities and probably elsewhere in Africa. Covid inevitably required some reshaping of activities but with a few beneficial impacts: in particular, some early skills trainings had to be redesigned to run online. The additional work that was required in redesigning the Transtu training programme in Tunis [aimed at supporting women staff at the parastatal that manages public mass transit] for online access], and the film on motorbike-taxi travel safety designed for women transport users in Abuja, have particular potential for spin off re widening access to these skills training programmes in other DAC locations. [The travel safety film has been used subsequently by our Nigerian collaborators in conjunction with the Nigeria Road Safety Commission to sensitise 300 young women university students in Abuja, Jos and Sokoto]. Beyond our study locations, information circulated about our project through the project website, Transaid's website, webinars and wider interactions with the GCRF-funded Intalinc network, HVT transport/PIARC, VREF and UNEP, and other collaborator networks, has led to many requests for information and contributions to wider discussions around improving women's access to transport and employment in the transport sector from academia, practitioners and policy makers [the latest request being contributions to an ITF/OECD paper on youth transport]. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport |
| URL | https://transportandyouthemploymentinafrica.com/ |
| Description | 1. Societal and economic impact of the award on DAC countries • Our findings continue to be discussed and drawn on by our NGO collaborator Transaid, and by government, community and private sector members of our project Consultative Groups in the three DAC study countries, Nigeria, Tunisia and South Africa. One example is the technical assistance provided to support mainstreaming gender in the development of Nigeria's national transport policy [with Dr Plangsat Bitrus Dayil coopted to join the Gender Inclusion in Transport workstream of the Federal Ministry of Transporation]. • Research findings were used to design and build the pilot interventions for young women transport users and women transport workers in the three study cities, all led by Transaid: these included transport management training for women workers in Abuja and Tunis, operator support for women minibus-taxi workers in Cape Town, a film on travel safety with a motorcycle-taxi for Abuja and development of a Safe Taxi Charter to improve women's travel experiences in Cape Town. As a direct result of this project, Transaid's women and transport work has been strengthened, particularly in their Uganda project, and they hope soon with their Ghana programme as well. • Findings from the research and intervention work have been used to promote attention to the diversity of challenges that women users and workers face and the impact these have on their wider well-being, in terms of access to productive employment and key services [education and skills, health]. Findings have been widely circulated to city, national and international stakeholders. The latest indication of impact is an invitation to present at an OECD International Transport Forum meeting in Germany, April 2023, on young people and transport, following on from provision of information from this project to the organisers of the associated OECD ITF report currently in preparation. • Our findings have contributed to invited webinar presentations for practitioners, policy makers and academics, including for the UK DFID High Volume Transport programme/PIARC, for the GCRF-funded Intalinc network, VREF and UNEP, and other collaborator networks. Transaid hosted a project webinar and a position paper was prepared by the PI for the Volvo Research and Education Foundations with implications for future work, applied research and capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa. All collaborators have made further individual contributions in both national and international contexts [as noted in the engagements listings]. 2. How the awards have addressed the SDGs • The research and the intervention workshops all contribute to addressing SDG 11.2 [access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems...expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations] given our focus on improving access to transport and employment for young unemployed women resident (18-35y) resident in low income peripheral urban locations. The research also contributes to SDG5 [achieve equality and empower women and girls] and SDG 8.5 [full and productive employment and decent work for all... including for young people]. 3. Impacts related to gender • Our action research has drawn attention to gender issues that relate to transport and associated access to employment in the three DAC study countries and beyond. In Nigeria Dr Dayil was invited to join the Road Transformation programme of the Federal Ministry of Transport, joining the Gender Inclusion in Transport workstream. • Training was provided to 39 women transport workers in Abuja, 27 in Cape Town and 6 in Tunis [where Covid constraints limited training numbers]. • This is further supported by the composition of the 3 country research teams and the UK team, all of which were led by and composed mainly of women [in each case with the female PI/CI mentoring a junior female researcher and both supporting young women peer researchers], and the composition of the Transaid team which is led by a male CI but also included significant contributions from two women senior staff. Two women employed as PDRAs have subsequently moved to other posts that will promote their career development. • We trained 18 women peer researchers across the 3 DAC countries [6 per country] - all were unemployed young women, some of whom have been able to use the skills they developed through the project to obtain work subsequently. During the pandemic, some found the small amount of paid diary writing work we were able to provide a real benefit not just as income but also for the psychological benefit it provided. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Appointment of Dr Bitrus Dayil to the Road Transformation Programme of Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Transport [Gender Inclusion in Transport workstream] |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Helping to shape Nigeria's national road transport programme with reference to gender issues is crucial for Nigeria's women, both as users and transport sector workers. |
| Description | Influence on employment policy and practice in transport companies |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | In AUMTCO Abuja, the company management have reported that 10 women of the 39 trained in the programme have already been promoted following the training programme. SANTACO Women's Desk in Cape Town report women minibus drivers' greater confidence since they received training on safe vehicle operation, vehicle maintenance and customer care. |
| URL | https://www.transaid.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/GCRF-Tech-Brief-FINAL-v2.pdf |
| Description | Training on working with community peer researchers at ITDP Mobilize virtual summit interactive training workshop |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://mobilizesummit.org/ |
| Description | Tunis engagement with transport/gender practitioners |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Staff from the African Development Bank and Islamic Development Bank engaged with the gender mainstreaming work I have been engaged with along with the AFDB and looked at how it would shape their ongoing work in the transport sector, with specific ref to users access to public services. However, I do not have evidence that the plans they discussed have been implemented on the ground. |
| Description | STUDY VISIT GRANT FOR PROJECT STAFF RESEARCHER FROM CAPE TOWN [NWABISA GUNGULUZA] TO VISIT ADDIS ABABA TO PRESENT AT THE WOMEN AND TRANSPORT IN AFRICA CONFERENCE, DEC 2019 |
| Amount | 25,000 kr (SEK) |
| Organisation | Volvo Research and Education Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Sweden |
| Start | |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | Young men's experiences of walking to the bus in low income neighbourhoods of London and Cape Town |
| Amount | 499,500 kr (SEK) |
| Organisation | Volvo Research and Education Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Sweden |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Title | Co-investigation |
| Description | Young people trained as peer researchers, then contribute through this work to question design in subsequent phases of qualitative and survey research. Also applied in researching older people's mobility. Details in G. Porter, Qualitative Research, 2016. Recently applied again in the GCRF Education and Skills project 2018-21, this time with young unemployed women and peer researchers in peripheral urban low income neighbourhoods in Nigeria, Tunisia and South Africa. About to test the approach with young men in the same South African research sites plus low income London neighbourhoods [with funding from VREF]. |
| Type Of Material | Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Many of the 70 young people trained in the child mobility project 2006-10 have themselves gained substantially from their work as peer researchers. Some went on to university or to jobs in the NGO sector (using the certificates provided by the project). Some continued 2012-15 to build their skills under the follow-on phones project. Impacts have been substantial re focusing our attention on key questions in the academic research component. The approach has subsequently been used with older people in a HelpAge International research project in Tanzania. Various relevant project publications e.g. Robson et al. 2009, Porter et al. 2010; Hampshire et al. 2012; latest comparative published review of approach across projects and age groups, extending info provided, in Qualitative Research 2016. Presentation of this method requested by the DLR Institute of Transport Research at a Workshop on Research Methods for Urban Informal Transport, Berlin Sept. 2016, and for the DEVEX webinar, Sept 2016. Subsequently utilised with unemployed women as peer researchers in the Education and Skills GCRF project and show-cased at international meetings in 2019 in Berlin, Fortaleza and Addis Ababa. Basis for a training programme for ITDP Mobilize virtual summit in October 2020 and now requested for a VREF meeting in Paris, late March 2023. Refinement of the method is ongoing as experience builds through the projects. |
| URL | https://transportandyouthemploymentinafrica.com/ |
| Title | Youth Engagement and Skills Acquisition Within Africa's Transport Sector |
| Description | Youth engagement and skills acquisition within Africa's transport sector was a collaborative research project between Durham University, UK, the University of Sokoto, Nigeria, the South African Labour and Development Research Unit [SALDRU] at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the UK-based NGO Transaid. The project's core data set deposited with RESHARE comprises in-depth interviews focused on daily mobility and transport, conducted by project academic staff and young unemployed women we trained as peer researchers at the outset of the study; a small number of focus group discussions conducted by academic staff; and diaries focused on daily mobility, mostly written by peer researchers during the pandemic. Anonymised data sets are provided for each of the three study cities. Note: The research team had also anticipated collecting quantitative data concerning the pilot trainings for transport users and transport workers led by Transaid. These were to have comprised baseline assessments, followed by post-intervention surveys after one month and six months to assess skills uptake among participating women. Although Transaid staff succeeded in implementing pilot training interventions in each city, in the final months of the project, COVID constraints limited recruitment numbers and the collection of baseline data amenable to statistical analysis. Collection of post-intervention data has not been possible due to COVID constraints and the requirement to end the project on 31st March 2022. Transaid's reports on the pilot interventions have been made available on the project website: https://transportandyouthemploymentinafrica.com |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This qualitative dataset includes in-depth interviews and focus groups around women as transport users and women working in the transport sector. The data are being utilised in the production of a series of papers and there is a technical report. Circulation is ongoing so that publications become available to stakeholders in the three study cities, and also to the global transport studies community [practitioners, policy makers, academics]. The dataset provided the base material from which evolved the design and implementation of pilot intervention projects in each of the 3 study cities. |
| Description | INTALINC |
| Organisation | Manchester University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contribute to ongoing activities, such as week's training and associated mentoring for African ECRs in transport-related research, led from University of Cape Coast Ghana in July 2022, and to run again 2023. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Similar contributions. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary - transport studies, geography, anthropology, engineering. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | INTALINC |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contribute to ongoing activities, such as week's training and associated mentoring for African ECRs in transport-related research, led from University of Cape Coast Ghana in July 2022, and to run again 2023. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Similar contributions. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary - transport studies, geography, anthropology, engineering. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership for the GCRF Education and Skills project |
| Organisation | TransAid |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We collaborated in the research study. Durham provided leadership and capacity building, working in collaboration with local project leaders. We worked together to train mentored staff and our peer research team. The peer research component was central to the field methodology and approach. We have worked with Transaid in the provision of complementary practical inputs, particularly in preparation for pilot interventions and in the ensuing interventions (where Transaid are the lead organisation). Our Country Consultative Groups in each of the three cities have extended our partnership to individual ministries of transport, parastatal transport organisations, local private sector transport operators, local NGOs, non-participating academic researchers etc.) while the intervention work has led to working partnerships with local NGOs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Complementary inputs throughout the research. Our partners collaborated in project design and planning; in-country collaborators led on day-to-day field investigations, established and maintained contact with government and other private and union transport sector stakeholders, and also led on community and consultative group interactions. All collaborators are involved in data analysis and writing for publication; papers based on project findings produced/currently submitted/in preparation are all multi-authored - some include staff from our NGO collaborator, Transaid, where appropriate. Transaid have led on pilot interventions following agreement with local stakeholders: this has included recruitment of and work with local NGOs as partners on individual interventions [Tounissiet in Tunis, Girls' Voices Initiative in Abuja, Sonke Gender Justice in Cape Town]. All face-to-face work was severely impacted by COVID-19. Some of the face-to-face pilot skills training programmes (which were already planned in some detail for Tunis and Abuja prior to the pandemic) had to be converted to online programmes in whole or in part, as the uncertainties raised by continued flare-ups of the disease reduced opportunities to pursue the original programmes as planned. Local academic and NGO collaborators supported Transaid face-to-face intervention work as this became feasible when the pandemic subsided. The peer research team pre-COVID undertook interviewing in the low income neighbourhoods where they reside; after the onset of the pandemic they became involved in writing Covid mobility diaries with support from in-country and UK academic staff. These were particularly important for keeping the teams updated on changing local conditions as the pilot skills programmes were redesigned and have also contributed to papers prepared for publication. Details of how we had to amend planned activities as a result of the pandemic are provided on our website: https://transportandyouthemploymentinafrica.com |
| Impact | Many outputs are still in progress in this project, following field research, Consultative Group meetings and the end of project workshop. Collaboration is multi-disciplinary: Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Geography, Transport Studies. Peer researchers report improved personal self-confidence; a few have obtained work consequently [for instance one of the Tunis peer researchers was subsequently employed as a research assistant on a UNICEF project]. We continue to engage with public, private and 3rd sector organisations to follow up on the completed pilot interventions in each of the three study cities. Skills training workshops were completed for both women transport users and transport sector workers in all three cities but ESDS funding then allowed us to continue to follow up on partnerships established during the project, as for instance with SANTACO Women's Desk in South Africa and the Federal Road Safety Commission in Nigeria. Our findings to date, including analyses of impact of the pandemic on women in the study communities, has been circulated to practitioner, policy and academic communities through webinar presentations, conference papers and other engagement. Three multi-authored papers (J. of Transport Policy; Mobilities; Transportation Research Procedia) and three book chapters have been published; a further two book chapters are in press and an additional four papers have been submitted for peer review. We led a full session at the 2022 Development Studies Association annual conference, have presented papers to other academic, policy and practitioner meetings [e.g. GiZ, UNEP, ITDP, Flone [Kenya], PIARC, FCDO] and further jointly authored papers are in preparation. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership for the GCRF Education and Skills project |
| Organisation | University of Cape Town |
| Department | Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We collaborated in the research study. Durham provided leadership and capacity building, working in collaboration with local project leaders. We worked together to train mentored staff and our peer research team. The peer research component was central to the field methodology and approach. We have worked with Transaid in the provision of complementary practical inputs, particularly in preparation for pilot interventions and in the ensuing interventions (where Transaid are the lead organisation). Our Country Consultative Groups in each of the three cities have extended our partnership to individual ministries of transport, parastatal transport organisations, local private sector transport operators, local NGOs, non-participating academic researchers etc.) while the intervention work has led to working partnerships with local NGOs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Complementary inputs throughout the research. Our partners collaborated in project design and planning; in-country collaborators led on day-to-day field investigations, established and maintained contact with government and other private and union transport sector stakeholders, and also led on community and consultative group interactions. All collaborators are involved in data analysis and writing for publication; papers based on project findings produced/currently submitted/in preparation are all multi-authored - some include staff from our NGO collaborator, Transaid, where appropriate. Transaid have led on pilot interventions following agreement with local stakeholders: this has included recruitment of and work with local NGOs as partners on individual interventions [Tounissiet in Tunis, Girls' Voices Initiative in Abuja, Sonke Gender Justice in Cape Town]. All face-to-face work was severely impacted by COVID-19. Some of the face-to-face pilot skills training programmes (which were already planned in some detail for Tunis and Abuja prior to the pandemic) had to be converted to online programmes in whole or in part, as the uncertainties raised by continued flare-ups of the disease reduced opportunities to pursue the original programmes as planned. Local academic and NGO collaborators supported Transaid face-to-face intervention work as this became feasible when the pandemic subsided. The peer research team pre-COVID undertook interviewing in the low income neighbourhoods where they reside; after the onset of the pandemic they became involved in writing Covid mobility diaries with support from in-country and UK academic staff. These were particularly important for keeping the teams updated on changing local conditions as the pilot skills programmes were redesigned and have also contributed to papers prepared for publication. Details of how we had to amend planned activities as a result of the pandemic are provided on our website: https://transportandyouthemploymentinafrica.com |
| Impact | Many outputs are still in progress in this project, following field research, Consultative Group meetings and the end of project workshop. Collaboration is multi-disciplinary: Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Geography, Transport Studies. Peer researchers report improved personal self-confidence; a few have obtained work consequently [for instance one of the Tunis peer researchers was subsequently employed as a research assistant on a UNICEF project]. We continue to engage with public, private and 3rd sector organisations to follow up on the completed pilot interventions in each of the three study cities. Skills training workshops were completed for both women transport users and transport sector workers in all three cities but ESDS funding then allowed us to continue to follow up on partnerships established during the project, as for instance with SANTACO Women's Desk in South Africa and the Federal Road Safety Commission in Nigeria. Our findings to date, including analyses of impact of the pandemic on women in the study communities, has been circulated to practitioner, policy and academic communities through webinar presentations, conference papers and other engagement. Three multi-authored papers (J. of Transport Policy; Mobilities; Transportation Research Procedia) and three book chapters have been published; a further two book chapters are in press and an additional four papers have been submitted for peer review. We led a full session at the 2022 Development Studies Association annual conference, have presented papers to other academic, policy and practitioner meetings [e.g. GiZ, UNEP, ITDP, Flone [Kenya], PIARC, FCDO] and further jointly authored papers are in preparation. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership for the GCRF Education and Skills project |
| Organisation | Usmanu Danfodiyo University |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We collaborated in the research study. Durham provided leadership and capacity building, working in collaboration with local project leaders. We worked together to train mentored staff and our peer research team. The peer research component was central to the field methodology and approach. We have worked with Transaid in the provision of complementary practical inputs, particularly in preparation for pilot interventions and in the ensuing interventions (where Transaid are the lead organisation). Our Country Consultative Groups in each of the three cities have extended our partnership to individual ministries of transport, parastatal transport organisations, local private sector transport operators, local NGOs, non-participating academic researchers etc.) while the intervention work has led to working partnerships with local NGOs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Complementary inputs throughout the research. Our partners collaborated in project design and planning; in-country collaborators led on day-to-day field investigations, established and maintained contact with government and other private and union transport sector stakeholders, and also led on community and consultative group interactions. All collaborators are involved in data analysis and writing for publication; papers based on project findings produced/currently submitted/in preparation are all multi-authored - some include staff from our NGO collaborator, Transaid, where appropriate. Transaid have led on pilot interventions following agreement with local stakeholders: this has included recruitment of and work with local NGOs as partners on individual interventions [Tounissiet in Tunis, Girls' Voices Initiative in Abuja, Sonke Gender Justice in Cape Town]. All face-to-face work was severely impacted by COVID-19. Some of the face-to-face pilot skills training programmes (which were already planned in some detail for Tunis and Abuja prior to the pandemic) had to be converted to online programmes in whole or in part, as the uncertainties raised by continued flare-ups of the disease reduced opportunities to pursue the original programmes as planned. Local academic and NGO collaborators supported Transaid face-to-face intervention work as this became feasible when the pandemic subsided. The peer research team pre-COVID undertook interviewing in the low income neighbourhoods where they reside; after the onset of the pandemic they became involved in writing Covid mobility diaries with support from in-country and UK academic staff. These were particularly important for keeping the teams updated on changing local conditions as the pilot skills programmes were redesigned and have also contributed to papers prepared for publication. Details of how we had to amend planned activities as a result of the pandemic are provided on our website: https://transportandyouthemploymentinafrica.com |
| Impact | Many outputs are still in progress in this project, following field research, Consultative Group meetings and the end of project workshop. Collaboration is multi-disciplinary: Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Geography, Transport Studies. Peer researchers report improved personal self-confidence; a few have obtained work consequently [for instance one of the Tunis peer researchers was subsequently employed as a research assistant on a UNICEF project]. We continue to engage with public, private and 3rd sector organisations to follow up on the completed pilot interventions in each of the three study cities. Skills training workshops were completed for both women transport users and transport sector workers in all three cities but ESDS funding then allowed us to continue to follow up on partnerships established during the project, as for instance with SANTACO Women's Desk in South Africa and the Federal Road Safety Commission in Nigeria. Our findings to date, including analyses of impact of the pandemic on women in the study communities, has been circulated to practitioner, policy and academic communities through webinar presentations, conference papers and other engagement. Three multi-authored papers (J. of Transport Policy; Mobilities; Transportation Research Procedia) and three book chapters have been published; a further two book chapters are in press and an additional four papers have been submitted for peer review. We led a full session at the 2022 Development Studies Association annual conference, have presented papers to other academic, policy and practitioner meetings [e.g. GiZ, UNEP, ITDP, Flone [Kenya], PIARC, FCDO] and further jointly authored papers are in preparation. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Abuja User Skills workshops - two workshops, one per study neighbourhood |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Two interactive workshops with young female users of public transport, led by Transaid and assisted by representatives of a women's rights NGO, Girls' Voices, and the Nigeria project team. Twenty female participants attended the first workshop from the study neighbourhood within the city boundary. A second workshop involved 20 female participants attended from the study neighbourhood outside the city boundary. The meetings were also attended by staff of the supporting local NGO, Girls Voices Initiative. The activities aimed to improve user knowledge of the transport sector and how they can have a voice, as well as discussing their suggestions to improve the public transport sector. The discussions led to beneficial insights that supported the creation of a proposed customer service charter. The specific activities that were carried out in each workshop included: Activity 1: A session with the objective of increasing the awareness of female commuters on the following: • Women's rights linked to public transport use; • The legislation in place protecting women; • The roles and responsibilities within the sector that protect women's safety; • The challenges faced by the transport sector in addressing the issues at hand; • Complaint mechanisms currently in place. Activity 2: A participatory activity that aimed to strengthen women's voices in the way public transport is operated. Through a series of discussion-based activities, participants provided input into the development of a customer service charter (CSC) by identifying key areas for improvement and new initiatives to be introduced that will improve women's safety as they access and use public transport. The customer service charter will be shared with relevant public transport provider(s) with the aim that they adopt and implement this charter. Participants were encouraged to share what was discussed with their peers in the two study neighbourhoods, with report of findings and discussions to be shared on a global scale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Abuja final country consultative group meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | c. 35 participants [plus 4 online international participants] met to review the project and its impact. In person participants included the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers, Federal ministry of women and children's affairs, federal ministry of transport, individual transport owners/operators, our peer researchers and the general manager of the Abuja Urban Mass Transit corporation [AUMTCO]. The latter [i.e. general manager at AUMTCO] in particular, had much favourable comment about the impact of the project research and the Transaid Transport Management Systems training provided as a project intervention on his organisation (where 40 women vendors and 3 management staff had been trained). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Abuja road safety film dissemination workshops in each of the two study neighbourhoods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Two dissemination events for women from the study neighbourhoods took place on Sunday the 13th of February in Abuja. 38 local women were shown the Hausa version of the video about safe travel on motorcycle- taxis [often the main local transport available to them and widely recognised as dangerous]. This video, which includes interviews with a peer researcher from each of the study neighbourhoods was shown twice and was then followed by a discussion session for thoughts, feedback and questions. Feedback varied from not knowing about tyre wear and never thinking about it or checking it but now they will, to discussions around trying to tell motorcycle taxi riders to reduce their speed or not use their phones and how there are safety concerns where women can get verbal abused or physically assaulted for asking riders to slow down, stop using their phones etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Abuja round table discussion with transport sector stakeholders prior to pilot interventions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A roundtable discussion was organised with transport sector stakeholders by Transaid and Nigeria project staff: this included the National Road Transport Union; Abuja Urban Mass Transport Company Limited [7 participants]; Study area Transport Association [3 participants]; Female Drivers Association of Nigeria [3 participants]; Federal Road Safety Corps; Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology; Federal Ministry of Transport [3 participants]; Representative from Yauvi; tricycle-taxi driver; motorcycle taxi driver; Federal Ministry of Women's Affairs; Girls' Voices NGO leader. The objective of the meeting was to introduce the user-focused activities and to understand transport stakeholder's perspectives regarding the challenges and opportunities to ensuring and upholding women's rights in transport. The discussion held at the roundtable was used to inform and guide the conversations during the workshops with female user participants to ensure that both perspectives be taken into account. The stakeholders shared their perspectives regarding women's rights in transport, agreeing that this was hindered within the transport sector and that it is a male dominated sector. The information gained in this roundtable was thus used to inform wider audiences such as users of transport and also help in development of a proposed customer service charter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CCG Abuja October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A socially-distanced Country Consultative Group organised by the local academic partners, with online participation from Durham. Key outcomes were retention of engagement of CCG members, review of local pandemic impacts on low income communities and the transport sector and main output was replanning started for pilot interventions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://transportandyouthemploymentinafrica.com |
| Description | Cape Town - two round table discussions with key transport stakeholders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Two roundtable meetings with key transport stakeholders in the Western Cape to share project findings and generate support forproject activities. The first roundtable was attended by eight people including SANTACO, SANTACO Women, Sonke Gender Justice and Transaid. [SANTACO is the principal representative body of the taxi Industry in South Africa.] Regional, Provincial and National reach through the participation of representatives from each of these levels. The first roundtable was attended by three SANTACO National Executive Committee (NEC) members, Transaid and Sonke Gender Justice. The second roundtable was attended by SANTACO Women's president, two NEC members, Transaid and Sonke Gender Justice. The aim of the two roundtable discussions was to engage with key transport stakeholders at SANTACO and SANTACO Women to understand the solutions they are currently implementing to support the protection of women's rights and their safety in transport; what challenges or obstacles they are facing; as well as creating a space to discuss the opportunities and limitations to make improvements in this area. The information gathered during the first roundtable was employed to prompt/facilitate the conversation during the commuter and "women in the transport industry" workshops. The second roundtable discussion was a platform to debrief on the activities delivered and to gather further input to develop appropriate skills training and follow-on pilot activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Cape Town - two transport user [commuter] workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Two participatory workshops which incorporated taught elements and group activities for the purpose of engaging female commuters in both study neighbourhoods, to understand their challenges and brainstorm solutions to inform the development of a Safe Taxi Charter to roll out at a minibus taxi rank. A total of twenty-five (25) women attended the workshop in the study neighbourhood within the city boundary and eleven (11) women attended the workshop in the study neighbourhood located outside the city boundary. The workshops themselves were co-facilitated by a team made up of: two (2) Transaid team members (Project Officer and CEO); Three (3) Sonke Gender Justice team members (Community Education and Mobilisation Unit Manager and two Community Mobilisers); a project RA from the University of Cape Town. Participants were encouraged to share what was discussed with their peers. Report of findings and discussions to be shared with in-country stakeholders as well as disseminated globally through Transaid's Knowledge Centre. The two participatory workshops were delivered for the purpose of engaging female commuters in both study neighbourhoods, to understand their challenges and brainstorm solutions to address key areas of improvement in the minibus taxi service provision. The workshops began with a brief presentation on the aims of the project, followed by participatory exercises including thought mapping and combination of ideas (to brainstorm challenges individually, and then merge them into a large idea map); theme creation and cause identification (to identify categories or themes for the challenges on the idea map); and figure storming (to identify practical solutions to address the identified challenges). The activities were followed by presentations back to the wider group. The workshop concluded with an Information, Education and Communication (IEC) session delivered by Sonke Gender Justice, which focused on the importance of understanding GBV, its terminology and simple strategies to put in place to make commuting safer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Cape Town GBV Awareness session for male drivers and door operators at taxi ranks - two sessions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Two GBV awareness sessions were delivered in Afrikaans to male drivers and door operators (gartjie) at selected lanes at the Bellville taxi rank in Cape Town by Sonke Gender Justice,following Sonke's One Man Can campaign manual, in collaboration with Transaid and a project RA. The aim of the activity was to conduct GBV sensitisation with selected minibus taxi drivers and crew at this busy taxi rank in the proximity of Cape Town, with the objective of raising the awareness of men on the contributors to GBV on public transport and encouraging them to tackle the attitudes which perpetuate this violence. A total of 15-20 attended each session, with some dropping in and out, according to business demands. They are men involved in operations in and around Bellville, Cape Town as drivers and gartjie (door operators) operating in and around Bellville, Cape Town. Participants also included SANTACO Women's Desk representatives and a lane regulator. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Cape Town Voices of women in the transport industry 2-day workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A two-day workshop similarly structured to the commuter workshops, including a mixture of presentations and taught elements as well as collaborative and participative exercises to elicit learnings from the group of participants. A total of 20 women attended the workshop on Day 1, and 16 women attended on Day 2. The workshop on both days was co-facilitated by SANTACO, Transaid and Sonke Gender Justice including two Transaid team members (Project Officer and CEO), three Sonke team members (CEM Unit Manager and two Community Mobilisers) and a Project Research Assistant from UCT. Participants belonged to different minibus taxi associations within the SANTACO Northern Region. Participants' ages ranged from c. 20 to 55. The workshop participants covered a diverse range of roles within their associations and, more widely, within SANTACO. Attendees included drivers, operators, administrators and secretarial staff, members of associations' leadership as well as national executive committee members. There was some engagement with men employed within SANTACO such as regional chairpersons and other executives within the SANTACO structures. 2021 The aim of this two-day workshop was to engage with women working in the minibus taxi industry in different capacities, including drivers and operators, administrators and executive members of associations. The goal was to further understand the challenges and needs of women working in the sector, and to collaboratively brainstorm solutions to support the protection of women's safety in transport, as well as identifying opportunities to further women's progression and visibility within the sector. Sonke Gender Justice delivered a comprehensive awareness session on GBV, focusing on contributing factors and the relationships between gender, power and violence. The group left the workshop with a greater understanding of key notions around GBV, its prevention as well as strategies to create a supportive and cohesive environment for increased visibility of women in the sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Country Consultative Group meeting 4 Abuja Sept 30th 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Country consultative group meeting held partially in person [33 in person, plus 4 international participants online. Purpose was to discuss and agree plans for the User and Employee intervention workshops with CCG members, wjth contributions from Transaid and from Girls' Voices, the local NGO recruited to support workshop activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Country Consultative Group meetings, Tunis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Country consultative group meetings in Tunis - one in March, one in August - to inform and gain information from local stakeholders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Country Consultative group meeting Cape Town 12 July 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Country consultative group meeting held online to present research findings, impact of Covid-19 on the project, and potential User and Employment pilot skills interventions. Only c 12 participants due to connectivity problems and Covid. Nonetheless vital for ongoing project planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Country consultative group meeting Cape Town October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stakeholder meeting for advice and information dissemination - key to project progression/partnerships |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Emma Murphy contribution re a consultation for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Joint Analysis of Conflict and Stability (JACS) North Africa Report 2020-2021 report. (JACS reports are strategic assessment tools which underpin UK National Security Council strategies). Two meetings, Oct. 2nd and Nov. 5th 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A consultation for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Joint Analysis of Conflict and Stability (JACS) North Africa Report 2020-2021 report. (JACS reports are strategic assessment tools which underpin UK National Security Council strategies). Two meetings, Oct. 2nd and Nov. 5th 2020. Main outcome is the UK FCDO JACS North Africa 2020-21 Report. Also an FCDO round table (29th January 2021 ) meeting to discuss the causes of protests in Tunisia. Will shape UK policy towards North Africa for the coming period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Emma Murphy online presentation 'Young women's mobility in Tunis', paper give at Youth Transitions: A global interdisciplinary Policy Research Conference. 20-21 Feb 2020, Geneva, Geneva Institute for International and Development Studies [co-sponsored by the ILO]. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The meeting brought together a mix of field practitioners and youth workers, academics, and policy experts including from the ILO and UN. Strategic partners included Decent Jobs for Youth, the International Labour Organisation, the Government of Spain. Outreach partners included Global Labour Organisation, Network for International Policies and cooperation in education and training NORRAG, Partnership for Economic Policy and Institute of Development Studies. The event was a deliberate effort to build a policy-research interface so both the presenters and the audience were drawn from policy and academic groups, as well as from practitioners working with young people in different technical fields. Has led to creation of Global Policy Network for Youth Transitions, based at Graduate Institute, Geneva. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/youth-transitions-global |
| Description | Federal Ministry of Transport Abuja, membership of/participation in Gender inclusion in transport workstream |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Plangsat Dayil was invited to join the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT OFFICE OF THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF STATE GENDER INCLUSION IN TRANSPORT PROGRAMME - PROGRAMME TITLE: ROAD TRANSPORT TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME (RTTP) She has been appointed a member of the "Gender Inclusion in Transport Workstream". There are 20 Steering Committee Members (Consisting of Relevant MDAs and other stakeholders in the Transport Sector and 8 Technical Committee members including the Hon Minister of State for Transport. Meetings: Every two weeks remotely. Programme Focus is on improving the participation of women in the transport sector through policies, incentives, training and empowerment initiatives; to improve the economy by extending employment, through providing support to women to overcome the long-standing barriers for women to be fully employed in the transport sector. Given that transportation limitations affect women's lives - in terms of access to markets, education, health, livelihoods etc. there are to be assignment/Interventions to engender the transport sector This includes the following activities: • Produce framework for Gender Inclusion in Transport • Review or develop customer service charters • Put in place measures to promote women's safety • Gender awareness training for existing workforce • Train special marshals to monitor harassment of women on public transport • Encourage inter-sectoral collaborative action to prevent continuing challenges experienced by women in accessing and utilizing public transport, thereby meeting SGD Goal 17- Partnerships to achieve the goal |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Film on safe travel by motorcycle taxi produced, followed by film shows and user discussions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This short film is aimed at improving travel safety for women who often have to rely on motorcycle-taxi transport in African cities. It shows key safety factors to consider when selecting a taxi and includes two of our Abuja peer researchers talking about the dangers/fears of taxi travel. It was produced with English and Hausa versions for showing to Abuja audiences in the first instance. Shows have commenced firstly with our peer researcher groups and their communities in Abuja. The Ministry of Transport have expressed a strong interest in circulating the film across northern Nigeria in which case the audience number could extend potentially to millions. Transaid are also looking at the potential for a Swahili version for circulation in east and southern Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Final country consultative group meeting for Cape Town |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The final consultative group for Cape Town city region, held courtesy of the Women's Desk of SANTACO [South African National Taxi Council] at their office in Belleville. This enabled us to review project progress across the 3 study cities and potential for outputs and impact activities in the Cape Town city region. Our Cape Town findings were presented by the South African RA, Bulelani Maskiti, together with one of the peer researchers, Sandiswa Matomane. Much debate ensued with important contributions from the SANTACO women's committee about how to build on our project work to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Final end of project meeting, held in Cape Town |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This meeting, held in Cape Town, was focused on a final end of project review of findings and outputs and plans for future engagement to carry forward this work. Participants were limited to project researchers, local RA and peer researchers, NGO Transaid staff and Tunis Ministry of Transport head of one of Greater Tunis's transport offices. Nigerian participants joined online due to problems obtaining S. African visas. Presentations were made for each city region in turn and used also as the base for end of project consultative group feedback sessions in all three cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Flone Initiative/WRI international women and transport conference, Nairobi, Nov 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of Abuja research to be given by Fatima Adamu - project overview presented instead by PI as Dr Adamu's connection failed. Raised interest in the project and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://womenandtransportafrica.org/ |
| Description | Follow on activities re Safe Taxi Charter in Cape Town |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Follow up meetings in Cape Town re the Safe Taxi Charter developed by Transaid with support from SANTACO Women's desk. This included a focus group meeting with 10 taxi drivers, interviews with 15 women minibus taxi commuters, plus meetings with 5 taxi owners and City of Cape Town authority staff to assess the value and appropriateness of the GBV training conducted in the skills project and the Safe Taxi Charter intervention. The taxi businesses and City authorities are keen to move forward with further development and dissemination of the charter to other regional taxi associations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Gender, Work and Organisation conference, University of Kent, 1st July 2021 The lived experience of women workers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation online to a diverse group at the Gender, Work and Organisation conference, on The lived experience of women workers in the road transport sector in Africa: Reflections from ongoing research in Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. This raised discussion with other participants, including transport union staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | LWC/Walk21/University of Brescia conference, 9-10 Sept 2021 presentation. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | LWC/Walk21/University of Brescia conference, Living and Walking in Cities, 9-10 Sept 2021. We presented a paper online, Improving young women's access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid. This led to discussion/comparison with conditions in other Mediterranean countries and interest in the potential for further research in the north African region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://lwc.unibs.it/ |
| Description | Mobilize conference, Fortaleza, Brazil [sponsored by ITDP/VREF], June 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | International review of mobility issues and study methods including value of participatory research methods. with communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.itdp.org/event/mobilize-fortaleza/ |
| Description | Motorcycle-taxi safety film presentation to women university students at 3 Nigerian universities and discussion with Nigerian Road Safety staff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the project video about selecting a safe motorcycle-taxi for travel, produced by Transaid. Presented to 89 women students at University of Abuja, 100 at University of Jos and 97 at University of Sokoto, with pre-video assessment of knowledge, followed by discussion with project collaborators and Federal Road safety staff and film show, then post-video assessment of knowledge. Much debate ensued re motorcycle-taxi safety. 91% of student said, having seen the video they will now consider factors that they wouldn't have considered before seeing the film. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Nigeria collaborator participation in webinar of the Female Drivers Association of Nigeria |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Nigeria collaborator Dr Dayil participated in webinar organised by women drivers association of Nigeria and was able to inform the participants about our ongoing research and respond to questions. FEDAN invited her as a guest speaker and she gave a speech on the problems faced by women in transport. This included the issue of the Agbero boys harassing female vendors and the transport infrastructures that do not take women into consideration. Stakeholders in the transport sector were invited- Road Safety, Police, Ministry of Transport etc. Other invitees include the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Ministry of Women Affairs, Traditional Rulers and the Media. They all pledged to work with FEDAN to encourage more women to go into transport business. NAPTIP appealed to FEDAN to partner with them in their fight against trafficking in persons, to be vigilant at all times and report suspicious passengers travelling with children. The president of FEDAN appealed to the three tiers of government and other private organizations in Nigeria to recruit female drivers in order to address the huge shortage existing in the road transportation industry. The president explained that studies revealed that a shortage of 80,000 drivers existed across the road transportation industry in the year 2021 alone, adding that women should be recruited to reduce the shortage. She encouraged all women, both young and old to take up the business of transportation as a skill and economic venture to improve their family living standards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | PI interactions with SIDA-funded ICLD Local Democracy Academy and Machakos County Local Government- local democracy lab on gender and transport |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited engagement with ICLD's Local Democracy Academy in preparation for a conversation lab with municipal politicians and civil servants of Machakos County, Kenya, re gendered ownership of/access to public transport and associated issues [identified by the County as a key issue where contact with researchers specialist in the field was seen to be potentially beneficial]. This was followed by the follow-up meeting on 4th March with Machakos County Government, and staff from international organisations, including the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy and the Nairobi-based International Centre for Research on Women. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | PI peer research methodology presentation and training for ITDP New York (Mobilize virtual summit interactive training workshop], October 26-30, 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI invited to run a training workshop on our peer research approach to transport studies for ITDP's mobilize virtual summit run from New York HQ- ran training and discussion groups with diverse organisations participating, resulting in various requests for info and follow up. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mobilizesummit.org/ |
| Description | Presentation at Mobilities congress, Berlin [sponsored by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung], May 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invitation to present and join panel discussions at a major mobility congress that attracted a large and diverse audience. Subsequently I have been contacted by Futurium Berlin re adivice on a planned exhibition around African mobilities [+invitation to other meetings e.g. from GiZ] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.fes-skopje.org/e/mobility-congress-in-berlin/ |
| Description | Presentation on Tunis study at ILO Geneva by Emma Murphy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | February 20/21st, panel chair and paper presentation (Young women's mobility in Tunisia) invited, Global Interdisciplinary Policy Research Conference on Youth Transitions, ILO and Graduate Institute Geneva. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentations y research team at Women in Transport conference, Addis Ababa, Dec 2019, organised by Flone Initiative and WRI. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the community peer research approach I have promoted across the 3 projects I am reporting on in researchfish. Interest in potentially adopting this approach from donors and 3rd sector organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://womenandtransportafrica.org/ |
| Description | Project collaborator meeting with Greencab South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting of NGO Transaid, S.African and UK collaborators with Greencab [carbon compensated transport co.] to explore potential collaboration including evaluation and impact assessments for a proposed new programme for women drivers in Cape Town. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Transport Management Training (part 1):12 week training programme for female staff of Transtu, Tunis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 12 weeks online virtual training by Transaid with female staff from Transtu, the parastatal transport co. of GreaterTunis. The training consisted of self learning chapters as well as weekly support and mentoring online calls with the participants. Six women from Transtu consistently joined the support and mentoring weekly calls. Attendees included managers of varying levels. Additional women joined sporadically as work and internet access allowed. Participants were encouraged to share what was taught/discussed with their peers. The aim of the trainings was to share knowledge about transport management with the participants, so that these skills/knowledge could be used within their public transport organisation to improve how transport was managed with consequent impact re improving service delivery in the longer term. The goal was also to deliver a specific awareness session on gender within the transport sector including topics such as relationships between gender, power and violence. External experts from large bus companies in the UK and Morocco also joined for several calls to exchange practices, experiences and knowledge of the public transport industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Transport Management Training for female staff of the Abuja Mass Transit Co [AUMTCO]- one of 6 days, one of 5 days. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | One 6 day and one 5 day training including a mix of office staff and field staff of the AUMTCO. A total of 40 women and 3 men attended the trainings. Industry/Business - Attendees included ticket vendors, administrative staff and managers of varying levels. Participants were encouraged to share what was taught/discussed with their peers. The trainings were facilitated by Transaid staff with content provided by Tunisian NGO Tounissiet. There was a mixture of presentations, taught elements and collaborative and participative exercises.The aim of the trainings was to share knowledge about transport management with the participants and that these skills and knowledge would be used within their public transport organisation to improve how transport is managed, thus with consequent impact of improving service delivery in the longer term.The goal was also to deliver a specific awareness session on gender within the transport sector including topics such as relationships between gender, power and violence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tunis Two User Skills Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Two interactive workshops with young female users of public transport, assisted by representatives of women's rights NGO Tounissiet, Ministry of Transport and road safety. Sixteen female participants attended the first workshop from the within-periphery study area of the city and 14 female participants attended the second workshop for participants from the study area outside the city boundary. The activities aimed to improve user knowledge of the transport sector and how they can have a voice, as well as discussing their suggestions to improve the public transport sector. The discussions led to beneficial insights that supported the creation of a proposed customer service charter. The specific activities that were carried out in both workshops included: Activity 1: A session with the objective of increasing the awareness of female commuters on the following: • Women's rights linked to public transport use; • The legislation in place protecting women; • The roles and responsibilities within the sector that protect women's safety; • The challenges faced by the transport sector in addressing the issues at hand; • Complaint mechanisms currently in place. Activity 2: A participatory activity that aimed to strengthen women's voices in the way public transport is operated. Through a series of discussion-based activities, participants provided input into the development of a customer service charter (CSC) by identifying key areas for improvement and new initiatives to be introduced that will improve women's safety as they access and use public transport. The customer service charter will be shared with relevant public transport provider(s) with the aim that they adopt and implement this charter. The meetings were also attended by: • Six peer researchers (involved in the initial research); • One senior official from the Ministry of Transport; • One representative from NGO Tounissiet; • Transaid workshop facilitator; • One representative from the Association of Road Safety; • One project manager (Transaid) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Tunis final Country Consultative Group meeting March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Final Tunis consultative group meeting with local and international NGO staff, our peer researchers and ministry of transport. We discussed project progress to date, potential future outputs and plans for further engagement and research impact in Greater Tunis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tunis individual stakeholder meetings [3] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Three individual meetings were held by Transaid staff with transport stakeholders to discuss the challenges women users face when using public transport and the opportunities to improve the situation in the industry: the organisations were The Association of Road Safety (l'ASR), the Tunisian Automobile Association (TAA) and FHI 360 (the Ma3an project). The aim was to introduce the project's activities to date and to understand their scope of work.The meetings were organised to present details of the project activities and outcomes of the female user workshops and the roundtable with Transtu. All three organisations expressed their interest and/or support for the project and articulated that the improvement of the conditions for young female users of public transport is within their scope of work. Their support will be taken forward and integrated into future activities that are related to the project, including the dissemination of results and future stakeholder meetings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Tunis presentation at IMEIS conference by Emma Murphy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | "Living in Insecure Times: Women, COVID and Mobility in Tunisia", paper presented at IMEIS Annual Summer Conference, Durham University, 14 June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tunis project staff meeting with Transtu re planned pilot intervention |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The meeting of ourTunis project staff with senior directors at Transtu [the parastatal authority that manages public mass transit in the greater Tunis area]: Meeting attendees included Transtu's chairman, the land transport manager and communications manager. The meeting was organised to present details of planned online support [to be led by the project collaborator Transaid] re building training skills in the authority. The questions and discussions has led to positive support for the Transaid proposal and plans to move forward i.e. formal agreement to the principle of collaboration. They will propose up to 20 [mainly women] for the online training. Potential trainees will come from various Transtu departments (HR, transport operations, finance, etc.) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Tunis research guest lecture Exeter by Emma Murphy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | "No Place for a Woman: The Everyday Political Economy of Women;'s Mobility in Tunis", Emma Murphy guest lecture, Center for Middle East Politics, Exeter University, 31st March 20222. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tunis roundtable with Transtu re user skills |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The meeting was between Transaid staff and our Tunis project staff, women's rights NGO Tounissiet, and Ministry of Transport plus senior directors at Transtu, the Greater Tunis transport parastatal. Meeting attendees included Director of Communication Transtu, Director of Development and Knowledge / Director of Training, and Co- Director of Training Transtu, Regional Director of Transport of Manouba/Ministry of Transport. The meeting was organised to discuss the challenges experienced by female users of public transport and the challenges/opportunities within Transtu to improve the conditions of travel for female commuters. The discussions led to beneficial insights that supported the creation of a proposed customer service charter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | UKCDR Covid circle poster and presentation [COVID-19 IMPACTS ON WOMEN TRANSPORT USERS AND TRANSPORT WORKERS IN AFRICA] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster prepared and presented online at the UKCDR meeting by the SKILLS team. [On 13 December 2022, UKCDR's COVID CIRCLE Researcher Community (CCRC) hosted a virtual conference that brought together those researching COVID-19 across the globe, funders that have supported COVID-19 research, and other global health and research for development stakeholders to discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 research response in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)]. Attendance figures unknown. Contributed to wider debates around COVID impacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ukcdr.org.uk/news-article/highlights-from-covid-circles-december-2022-conference/ |
| Description | UNEP Africa Network for Walking And Cycling/Walk21 annual forum, session organisation + webinar presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Our group was encouraged to propose a session for UNEP Africa Network for Walking And Cycling/Walk21 annual forum. We organised the session and associated webinar presentation, Nairobi/online 12th October 2021. "GETTING SAFELY TO THE BUS: Women walking to/from transport pick-up points." This included presentations from each of our study city research teams plus contributions from other academic researchers working in African cities. The session raised much debate on this under-researched issue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.unep.org/events/summit/africa-network-walking-and-cycling-annual-forum |
| Description | UNEP Expert working group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Member of UNEP Expert Working Group on accelerating rural access in Africa, 4/2021 [but extends to rural-urban interactions so our skills study has been relevant]-. Regular online meetings to plan activities and support in-country transport studies/interventions, including advice re preparations for UNEP Africa Regional Forum for Action - Inclusive and Active Mobility in a changing climate [Kigali, 7-9/6/2022] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.fiafoundation.org/news/kigali-forum-supports-safe-walking-and-cycling-in-africa |
| Description | Urban mobilities conference, Addis Ababa, including to present my first draft of a position paper on User needs [commissioned by the Volvo Education and Research Foundation, Sept 2019, funded by VREF and GiZ.] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion re my first draft of a position paper on Transport User needs [commissioned by the Volvo Education and Research Foundation, Sept 2019, funded by VREF and GiZ.] Interest and follow up by diverse individual organisations - 3rd sector + consultancy practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.transformative-mobility.org/news/tumi-mac-shift-addis-ababa |
| Description | Various meetings with NGOs run by Transaid in preparation for skills intervention work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A series of meetings that Transaid have set up with other NGO organisations to provide preliminary information about our study and in some cases for local support with pilot intervention plans: Girls Voices (Nigeria); WRAPA (Nigeria); ActionAid (Nigeria); AUMTCO (Nigeria);Tounissiet (Tunis); National automobile Club of Tunisia; Le Ambassadeur Securité Routiere (ASR) Tunis; Flone Initiative; FIA Foundation; Pikalily; UNDP (Zambia). These connections have elicited requests for further information and are important for future dissemination of findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar presentation for INTALiNC interactive webinar series, run through UCL DPU, 30th July 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Intalinc meeting on age and disability webinar presentation focused on engaging with diverse network members [all sectors - practitioners, policy, NGo, academics and international postgraduate students]. Presentation on ow young women's mobility and transport experiences shape their employment opportunities: Reflections from ongoing research in three African cities - led to various contacts requesting further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://intalinc.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2020/05/Programme_FINAL.pdf |
| Description | Webinar presentation for UK Participatory Research Network, 26th June 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar presentation and discussion groups regarding working with community peer researchers [presented by PI and UK PDRA] - raised discussion from NGO staff, in particular, as they seem to see this as a new approach with considerable potential. No information yet as to impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://uniofnottm-my.sharepoint.com/personal/p_taylor_nottingham_ac_uk/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id... |
| Description | Webinar presentation for Urban Futures discussion, UCL Dev. Planning Unit, 9th June 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI contribution as part of the Bartlett School's Urban Futures seminar aimed at transport professionals including those in training - diverse presentations from donors [World Bank, Inter-American dev. bank], NGOs and academics led to further queries on research/interests in collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/development/events/2020/jun/urban-mobility-responses-challenges-and-p... |
| Description | Webinar presentation of GCRF research for UCL Dev. Planning Unit, 9th June 2020. [covid] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of our study to UCL DPU postgraduates and to wider international audience of transport practitioners, private sector and researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | country consultative group meetings Abuja, May 2019+ Feb 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Key meetings with stakeholders for advice, information dissemination etc. including private and public sector to discuss potential project interventions. A recent direct spin out from the CCG came following the Nigerian Ministry representative of Women's Affairs' submission of a report to the Minister. She has expressed an interest in promoting women's involvement in the transport sector - a meeting with CI Dr Adamu and Dr Dayil is now scheduled. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | webinar presentations for DFID High Volume Transport Programme/PIARC [World Road Association] 15th May 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations requested by DFID high volume transport programme/PIARC on impacts of covid on women's mobility in Africa - over 400 participants. [Gina Porter (PI) re three country study + Fatima Adamu (Nigeria CI) re Abuja study]. Led to requests for participation in other webinars, input into both private sector and academic-led discussions and potential new research studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://transport-links.com/news/webinar-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-women-in-transport/ |