Please find below a selection of websites that relate to Transaid’s areas of work. These include transport-related working groups of major international organisations and organisations that specialise in transport/accessibility policy and academic research.
Useful Websites
Global Transport Knowledge Partnership
A portal to transport related knowledge relevant to developing and emerging countries. The site links together transport knowledge from many leading organisations and provides visitors and members with a single entry point into the vast knowledge base currently available on-line.
World Bank Transport Thematic Group
World Bank's working group dedicated to transport and development.
DfID Transport for Development
The UK’s Department for International Development website dedicated to the agency’s research programme in the transport sector.
Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade
The GFP aims to achieve improvements in transport and trade facilitation in World Bank member countries.
Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program
Partnership of 35 African countries, 8 regional economic communities, 3 African institutions and other national and regional organisations and international development partners working to improve transport in Africa.
Make Roads Safe
Make roads safe is an international campaign to put global road traffic injuries on the G8 and UN sustainability agendas.
World Bank Global Road Safety Facility
The Global Road Safety facility was created to address the growing problem of road traffic fatalities worldwide.
Healthlink Worldwide
Healthlink Worldwide is a specialist health and development agency that empowers through communication. Issue 25 of their Health Action newsletter discusses the importance of transport for primary health care.
Mobility and Health
Mobility and Health is a two-year networked research project that investigates the links between mobility and health in developing countries.
The International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD)
Global network of individuals and organisations that works to improve access, mobility and economic opportunities for communities in the developing world.
Animal Traction
Network created to improve information exchange and regional cooperation in Eastern and Southern Africa relating to animal traction transports.
Rural Transport and the Millennium Development Goals
Presentation by the IFRTD about the links between rural transport and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Logistics Operational Guide (LOG)
The LOG is a tool which provides a collection of information such as best practices, templates, guidelines and standard operating procedures for logisticians operating in the field. Transaid has provided input for the LOG, specifically with a focus on fleet management and cold chain.
Africa Community Access Programme (AFCAP)
The Africa Community Access Programme is designed to address the challenges of providing reliable access for poor communities
Policy Documents and Academic Research
Safe, Clean and Affordable... Transport for Development
The World Bank Group’s Transport Business Strategy for 2008-2012.
DfID 2009 White Paper: Building our Common Future
The UK’s Department for International Development 2009 White Paper on International Development.
World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention
The World Health Organisation Report on road traffic injury prevention, published in 2004.
Balancing the Load, Women, Gender and Transport Coedited by Priyanthi Fernando and Gina Porter (2002)
This book, published in association with the IFRTD, brings together case studies of the way transport affects communities across Asia and Africa.
The Social Dimensions of Transport
Presentation by the World Bank that addresses the transport needs of the world’s poorest communities.
Transport in Developing Countries and Climate Policy - Suggestions for a Copenhagen Agreement and Beyond
This paper by Daniel Bongardt, Frederic Rudolph and Wolfgang Sterk, researchers at the Wuppertal Institute, looks at the implications of the rapid motorization of countries in Asia and Latin America for global climate change.
