Local Transport Solutions (Main Index)
 
Develop policies
Include all stakeholders
Improve the image
Plan for integrated use
Define needs, promote options
Prioritise and concentrate resources
Ensure availability and maintainence
Market actively
Build on experiences
Network and collaborate
 
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Develop policies that encourage local transport solutions
Policy makers and development organisations must work towards a positive enabling environment that allows people to manufacture, purchase and efficiently operate intermediate means of transport.



Encouraging the use of cycles and
motorcycles by providing special lanes in Mali


 

Hand cart made by and for entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
If conditions are right, the formal and informal private sectors can be efficient in making, promoting, supplying and repairing a wide range of intermediate means of transport.


Cart made by artisans in Tanzania
 


Village workshop making and repairing carts and other intermediate means of transport in Mali
Donkey carts providing transport services near a regional market in Mali. The number of donkey carts and other intermediate means of transport have increased greatly in Mali in recent years, assisting people and stimulating the local economy.
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