[sustran] FW: Africa Rural Transport on BBC World Sept 17-23

[Paul Barter]

-----Original Message-----
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rural tran [mailto:RURAL-TRANSPORT-DEVELOPMENT at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On Behalf
Of Priyanthi Fernando
Sent: Friday, 14 September 2001 5:47
To: RURAL-TRANSPORT-DEVELOPMENT at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Africa Rural Transport on BBC World Sept 17-23


Below is a message sent out by the World Bank which some of
you may not have received.  Any feedback on the programme is
welcome!  Please share it with friends and colleagues.

Best wishes

Priyanthi Fernando
IFRTD Secretariat



-----Original Message-----
From: Sgiltner at worldbank.org [mailto:Sgiltner at worldbank.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 09:12
To: ...
Subject:
Africa Rural
Transport on BBC World Sept 17-23


Apologies to those who receive more than one copy of this
message.

 Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP)
Colleagues and Friends:

This is an early alert that the BBC World will broadcast a half-hour
program called "The Long Walk" about transport in rural Africa
several times between September 17 and 23.  "The Long Walk" will
appear as part of the BBC World series "Earth Report."  Earth
Report is produced by the Television Trust for the Environment.
This program on rural transport in Africa is sponsored by the
SSATP's Rural Travel and Transport Program (RTTP) and
ILO/ASIST through funds allocated to those programs by DFID.
The RTTP and ILO/ASIST worked together to suggest themes and
shooting locations.  IFRTD was also important in developing the
original idea to sponsor a broadcast program on rural transport in
Sub-Saharan Africa.

The program is about aspects of rural transport in Africa, not about
the RTTP or the ILO as such. Videotaping occured in Senegal,
Guinea, Tanzania, and Malawi and covers several projects, favoring
the themes of lack of access to adequate transport, IMT solutions
(donkeys, bicycles), and rural road maintenance.  The themes are
presented almost entirely via stories of local people.  We hope this
program will raise awareness of rural transport issues in Sub-
Saharan Africa among the general population and policymakers in
Africa and elsewhere. Judging from the script, the Television Trust
for the Environment (TVE) has produced a program that should
engage a wide public.

BBC World is a commercial arm of the BBC that reaches some 167
million homes (not to mention some 600,000 hotel rooms!) in
nearly 200 countries and territories.  Seventy-one million of these
homes receive BBC World on a 24-hour basis, while 96 million
receive it on a part-day basis.  BBC World is of course not the
same as the BBC World Service, which is the radio broadcast part
of the BBC.

     BBC World broadcasts "Earth Report"  several times a week.
The broadcast time in your location will depend on whether BBC
World reaches you via a parabolic antenna (a "dish") receiving the
London broadcast, or through local cable or broadcast.  If you have
a parabolic that receives the London broadcast, "Earth Report" is
on at  (Greenwich Mean Time) Mondays (03:30, 21:30), Tuesdays
(08:30, 11:30, 14:30), Wednesdays (01:30), Saturdays (18:30), and
Sundays (07:30).  The rural transport program will
be the only "Earth Report" program during the week of September
17-23.
However, broadcast in local markets through cable or other means
can have different schedules, which may not even include "Earth
Report."   Local cable/broadcast schedules for most countries can
be obtained for the coming week from the BBC World website
http://www.bbcworld.com/

Information about "Earth Report" can be found on TVE's website
page http://www.tve.org/earthreport/schedule/index.html

     We will send a reminder closer to the broadcast date;  there will
also be information on the SSATP website at
www.worldbank.org/afr/ssatp.  We hope you will let others know
about the program.  It would be splendid if RTTP
and RMI coordinators could determine the channel and local times
in their markets and inform colleagues and friends about the BBC
World coverage.
Please feel free to forward this message.

     Thank you!


Compliments
Sandra Giltner
Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program

Office 1 202 473 0444  Mobile 1 202 253 4743
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1818 H St NW
Washington DC 20433

________________________________________________________________________
Priyanthi Fernando
Executive Secretary
International Forum for Rural Transport and Development
2 Spitfire Studios
63-71 Collier Street
London N1 9BE
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7713 6699
Fax: +44 (0)20 7713 8290
email: ifrtd at gn.apc.org OR priyanthi.fernando at mcmail.com
Web page: http://www.gn.apc.org/ifrtd