Call for a stronger focus on the gender implications of inadequate transport in rural areas
By: Porter G
Published by: Overseas Development Institute, 2007
Via: Eldis
This paper produced for a conference at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) reflects on the experiences of women and girls with poor accessibility to services and markets, and inadequate transport in rural sub-Saharan Africa. It uses examples from field research to look at the impact of these factors on girl’s education before going to examine access to health services. The paper reviews evidence regarding the extent to which road construction positively impacts on women and girls, and the potential for Intermediate Means of Transport, including bicycles and motorcycles. Non-transport interventions are also considered: in particular, the diffusion of mobile phones across Africa in the past few years and their growing impact in some remote areas.
The author calls for a stronger focus on gendered mobility and access issues within the development community, arguing that it is a neglected area amongst gender and transport specialists alike. In the meantime, it is argued, the prospects for rural women and their daughters who live in areas with inadequate transportation will remain extremely poor, with evident implications in terms of inter-generational transfers of poverty
(http://www.odi.org.uk/PPPG/poverty_and_inequality/events/
2007_Spatial_Poverty_Traps/Porter_full_paper.pdf)
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