GENDER AND TRANSPORT RESOURCE GUIDE  
Introduction
MODULE 1:
Why Gender and Transport?
MODULE 2:
Challenges for Mainstreaming Gender in Transport
MODULE 3:
Promising Approaches for Mainstreaming Gender in Transport
MODULE 4:
Gender and Rural Transport Initiative (GRTI)
MODULE 5:
Tools for Mainstreaming Gender in Transport
MODULE 6:
Resources for Mainstreaming Gender in Transport
Acknowledgements
 
Module 5: Tools for Mainstreaming Gender in Transport
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5.8. Transport Sector Policy Points of Intervention

Transport sector policy is often assumed to be gender neutral when, in fact, it is often gender blind or gender biased. The following elements can facilitate gender aware policy and planning.

Sector Policy Check List

  • Do transportation policy and planning procedures explicitly take gender into account?

    • Are gender gaps and gender specific needs, capacities, constraints and opportunities identified?
    • Is socioeconomic empowerment an integral element?
  • Is there a gender balance in the transport-related ministries" work force? Is there gender expertise?
  • Is there a ministry focal point or unit responsible for advocacy and gender inclusion at the policy and project level?
  • Have women and men civil society stakeholders for transport programs been consulted? Included in teams analyzing policy and strategy? Included in decision-making?
  • Does the Road Fund Board have representation advocating on gender issues?
  • Does investment in the transport sector increase access to schools, markets, health, financial and other services?
  • Is privatization of transportation under consideration? What are the implications for pricing and safety factors that could negatively impact poor women?
  • Is there a system for monitoring the implementation of gender components of sector policies and strategies?
  • Does the transportation sector strategy address gender issues?

    • Labor issues (e.g., promotion of gender in labor based work, inclusion of women contractors)?
    • Participation of women in prioritization and design of works?
    • Discriminatory practices (e.g., constraining women from becoming entrepreneurs of transport services or taking civil contracts for works?)
    • Promotion of safe transport facilities and modes of transport?
    • HIV/AIDs prevention?
    • IMTs?
    • Participatory monitoring and evaluation?
    • Policy reforms with significant gender impacts (e.g., Increased fuel levies, increased public transport costs, retrenchment)
  • Does the sector budget include resources for:

    • Gender disaggregation of data
    • Outreach and capacity building
    • Grants for addressing gender issues
    • Maintenance of access roads, footbridges, tracks?
If many of these elements are lacking, awareness raising and advocacy are needed to put them in place.


Addressing Gender and Poverty Issues in Transport Policy
Step 1: Social Assessment
Step 2: Policy Formulation
Step 3: Transport Sector Regulation
Adapted from "Public Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Gender and Poverty." World Bank. 2004.


Mainstreaming Gender in Transport Policy in Zambia

The Government of Zambia moved toward filling the gender gap in transport policies [that had left most women, particularly those in rural areas, with little access to transport] through the following measures:
  • Making an inventory of transport and communication use by gender.
  • Training and awareness raising for women in construction and management of transport infrastructure.
  • Facilitating research to identify the modes of transport used in different rural areas, especially by women, to inform the development of appropriate interventions.
  • Facilitating and providing soft loans and other incentives such as tax holidays for rural transport operators in order to increase access to transport for poor women, as well as those with disabilities.
  • Empowering women to participate in the management of transport in their local communities.
  • Developing coordination mechanisms between the transport sector and other sectors in the economy to ensure that women receive benefits.
  • Enacting legislation to compel transporters to import facilities that are accessible to women and persons with disabilities.
Adapted from Toolkit on Mainstreaming Gender Equality in EC Development Cooperation. 2004

Sector Policy Resources

See Module 6 for a complete listing of gender and transport resources organized by type of resource and issues. The list below includes resources on topics presented in this section of Module 5.

 
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