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Bicycle Ambulance Project in Zambia, September 2008
Transaid, leading a consortium of international NGOs, has been successful in securing funding from the Canadian International Development Agency to undertake a rural access project for the production and distribution of bicycle ambulances in Zambia's Eastern Province.
Driving Professional Driver Training Standards in Zambia, 19 August 2008
Transaid are working in Lusaka, Zambia to develop professional driver training standards. Transaid has been working with the ITC Trust in Lusaka since 2002 and on Tuesday 19th August 2008 this partnership entered an exciting new phase through a formal agreement to significantly develop the training facility. Transaid and the ITC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to define the ways of working together and ensuring the success and sustainability of this project.
Operational Assessment – Transport and Distribution at Uganda’s National Medical Stores, June 2008
Transaid were invited by National Medical Stores of Uganda to undertake an assessment of their transport and distribution function in order to provide a series of recommendations as to how they could reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve service delivery.
Transaid tackles HIV Awareness among drivers in Zambia, May 2008
On May 27th Transaid presented a paper at the Country Consultation on HIV in the Transport Sector in Zambia arranged by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This paper details the need for driver training standards in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), not only to reduce the enormous death tolls due to road crashes but also as a vehicle for delivering standardised HIV/Aids education to drivers.
The Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunisation in Northern Nigeria (PRRINN) – Project Update 2008
Transaid was asked to become involved in the Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunisation in Northern Nigeria (PRRINN). In this project, the cold chain and related transportation is absolutely vital for making vaccines more readily available and improving immunisation coverage in the target areas. Transaid was therefore tasked to undertake an assessment on the supply side to analyse the current transport situation and existing resources in each state, and how they can be best utilised to help achieve the aims of the project.
Transaid Partners with St John Uganda, June 2008
Transaid had extended its reach into East Africa and is helping St John Uganda to increase the capacity of its ambulance service. With very few operating vehicles, St John ambulances provide a vital link for people to access health services in the community. This project follows on from early work with St John in Zambia.
Female Market Trader Project, Accra, Ghana, March 2008
Female market traders face exceptionally daunting difficulties every day of their lives. Reliance on unsuitable and unreliable transport is expensive, time-consuming and unsafe, with the risk of theft or assault posing a likely threat. Transaid is working with the private sector to assist market women to own, manage and control their own fleet of transport to relieve the women traders of the burden and hardship associated with their trading.
