[Projects in Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania]

• Focused on IMTs with the exception of the Kenya Nkone bridge construction project.
• Supported many innovative workshops across the continent.
• Several projects targeted remote areas with major transport difficulties.
• Strong emphasis on repair and maintenance.
• High level of local participation from start to finish.
• Sponsored workshops led to increased income earning, access to markets, and productivity.
• Contributed to school completion rates for girls.
• Improved capacity and interest of local groups to plan and implement projects to address local transport problems.
• Major constraint was inability of many local people, particularly women, to afford IMTs. Repayment rates on loans for IMTs were poor. Projects did not focus on sustainability.
• Great need to create a more conducive environment for private sector transport service provision.

Example: Cote D'Ivoire implemented a motorized tricycle project with strong community participation and a feeder road maintenance component.

[Projects in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe]

• Most studies used participatory, qualitative methods.
• Participatory research approach led to wider acceptance of results.
• Studies improved knowledge and sensitized various stakeholders on gender and RTT.
• Study recommendations and action plans were not always implemented.
• Inadequate funding for studies resulted in limited geographic coverage.
• Lack of existing secondary sex-disaggregated data in all 16 countries (household-level not individual-level data).

Example: Nigeria conducted a gender study of rural transport.

[Projects in Cameroon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe]

• Workshop topics were selected by RTTP coordinators, relevant ministries and district officials.
• The majority of the workshops included a diverse set of participants (government officials, donor representatives, civil society, and local groups, including women's groups).
• The Malawi workshop targeted principal secretaries in ministries.
• The workshops increased knowledge and awareness of gender and transport issues.
• Objectives of some of the workshops were too broad; More specific guidelines are needed.
• Only about half of the action plans were carried out by participants after the workshop. There is a need for follow up workshops.

Example: Madagascar conducted a workshop on integration of women in rural roads projects,

• Capacity building and advisory services aimed to enhance the mainstreaming skills of local officials and personnel of the RTTP program.
• All of the GRTI activities included capacity building.
• Trained and advised a cadre of practitioners across Africa to mainstream gender in RTT.
• More capacity building is needed for gender mainstreaming of national transport policies.
• While progress was made, much remains to be done.
• There is a need to develop gender and transport TOOLS for local use.
• Training of local trainers is essential to achieve sustainability.

• Awareness raising and information dissemination were closely linked with capacity building activities.
• Established a GRTI Website.
• Developed training manuals and toolkits for gender and transport. Developed technical and good practices notes.
• Quarterly reports prepared by activity implementers, were irregular and lacked depth (both quantitative and qualitative details were limited).
• Guidelines are required for quarterly reports to ensure that they provide the level of quantitative and qualitative data needed to monitor progress toward objectives.
• More awareness raising materials are needed in French.