[sustran] Re: Gender issues in urban transport

priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org
Fri Oct 10 19:03:57 JST 2003


Thanks Walter...IFRTD as  an information sharing and advocacy 
network and not an implementing organisation, has to rely on its 
members to yield 'good practice'.  Our knowledge of what is 
happening on the ground points to many examples of micro 
interventions that have aimed to address women's needs some with 
more success and others.  The challenge in the rural context is to 
identify ways and means of promoting the ownership of affordable 
transport means among women for tasks that have no immediate 
financial return.  There is also some good practice of integrating 
women into labour based road construction. 

>From what we know there are  few occasions where gender is 
mainstreamed into larger scale transport planning - and by 
mainstreaming I guess we mean understanding the potential 
differential impact of interventions on men and women and making 
decisions accordingly.  It ought to mean more initiatives of 
disaggregating data such as you have in the non-motorised transport 
master planning that you have described.  This is very encouraging - 
and we would welcome ideas about how this can be more widely 
promoted...IFRTD members are consciously trying to integrate 
gender into processes of integrated rural accessibility planning -  this 
is another encouraging development.

I am not aware of a women-owned bus cooperative in Sri Lanka.  the 
Lanka Forum on Rural Transport Development (LFRTD)supported a 
community-owned bus initiative in Sri Lanka, which is still going on (I 
travelled in the bus last year!) but which is constrained by the 
community's lack of finances and political influence to get the local 
authorities to maintain the road... this has limited the route the bus 
can take...There are also other issues that make the initiative 
unsustainable. Meanwhile there are other spontaneous community 
transport programmes that have emerged in different parts of the 
island. The Lanka Forum is trying to use the lessons from this 'failure' 
and from the other community  based schemes  to encourage a rural 
transport policy that will support intermediate public transport and 
better network planning and maintenance at the decentralised level.  
You can contact the coordinator of the  LFRTD on lfrtd at eol.lk for 
more info.

Best wishes

Priyanthi



9 Oct 2003 at 15:28, Walter Hook wrote:

> well, our projects to modernize cycle rickshaws in india and indonesia
> benefit women who represent the majority of the passengers, but the
> operators who get the income boost are men.  we held a tour des femmes
> bike ride in Senegal that got a lot of women cycling for the first
> time, but the numbers are not that impressive.  the jinja bike
> ambulances done by Fabio have some impressive effects on women's
> health by getting them to the hospital during medical emergencies, but
> we were not involved.  in non-motorized transport master planning
> efforts we are working on we sometimes have household survey data that
> is broken down by gender, and find that focusing in the safety of
> short trips to markets and schools would be one way to prioritize
> traffic system interventions that benefit women.  how about ifrtd, do
> you have any new best practices to share?  i heard that the
> women-owned bus cooperative in sri lanka eventually failed.
> 
> walter
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org>
> To: "Walter Hook" <whook at itdp.org>; "Asia and the Pacific sustainable
> transport" <sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org> Cc: "Wendy Tao"
> <WENDYT at wri.org> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: Re:
> [sustran] Re: Gender issues in urban transport
> 
> 
> > Hi Walter
> >
> > I am surprised that you are not quoting any 'good practice' examples
> > of gender mainstreaming into urban transport planning from your own
> > or others experience?  We've been a long time discussing these
> > issues...
> >
> > I have the following email address for Kerry Hamilton
> > k.hamilton at uel.ac.uk
> >
> > Priyanthi
> > IFRTD
> >
> > On 9 Oct 2003 at 12:17, Walter Hook wrote:
> >
> > > deike peters, now at the technical university of berlin, did a
> > > gender and transport toolkit for the world bank under the auspices
> > > of Michael Bamberger.  That would be a good place to start. 
> > > IFRTD's web site also probably has a lot of materials, and did
> > > some publications on the topic, though they are more rural in
> > > their orientation.  there is also some first world work done by
> > > kerry hamilton in the UK.  my contact info is out of date.
> > >
> > > w. hook
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Wendy Tao" <WENDYT at wri.org>
> > > To: "<" <sustran-discuss at jca.apc.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:05 PM
> > > Subject: [sustran] Gender issues in urban transport
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello everyone.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to do a research project on gender issues in urban
> > > > transport, specifically focused on Vietnam (Hanoi and HCMC).
> > > >
> > > > As Hanoi and HCMC begin to plan their transport networks to
> > > > accommodate the rapidly increasing urban area, an often
> > > > overlooked component that transport planners must face is the
> > > > role of gender in the design, implementation, communications,
> > > > and marketing of a system that should meet the practical and
> > > > strategic needs of both men and women.  If gender issues are
> > > > ignored in transportation planning, there is a risk that women's
> > > > access to the workplace is stifled, efficiency in public
> > > > transport design is not maximized, and economic and social gains
> > > > for a large part of the population is not captured.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have recommendations on literature or institutes
> > > > focused on these sorts of issues?  If anyone works on these
> > > > gender and transport issues themselves, I would love to connect
> > > > and get some feedback on a few ideas.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > WT
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Wendy Tao
> > > > EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Transport and the Environment
> > > > World Resources Institute
> > > > 10 G Street, NE Suite 800
> > > > Washington, DC 20002
> > > > (phone) 202.729.7649
> > > > (fax) 202.729.7798
> > > > www.embarq.org
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Priyanthi Fernando
> > Executive Secretary, IFRTD
> > 113-114Spitfire Studios,
> >  63-71 Collier Street
> > London N1 9BE. United Kingdom
> > Tel: +44 20 7713 6699
> > Fax: +44 20 7713 8290
> > Email: priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org OR ifrtd at ifrtd.org
> > Web: www.ifrtd.org
> >
> > IFRTD provides a framework for collaboration between individuals and
> > organisations interested in issues of access & mobility as they
> > affect the lives of rural people in developing countries.
> >
> >
> 
> 


Priyanthi Fernando
Executive Secretary, IFRTD
113-114Spitfire Studios,
 63-71 Collier Street
London N1 9BE. United Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 7713 6699
Fax: +44 20 7713 8290
Email: 	priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org OR ifrtd at ifrtd.org
Web: www.ifrtd.org

IFRTD provides a framework for collaboration between individuals 
and
organisations interested in issues of access & mobility as they affect 
the
lives of rural people in developing countries.




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