Transport Forum 2000

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Transport Forum 2000

• Workshop - April 12
• Promoting Appropriate Transport Technology for
  the Poor What can we do?
  
• Presentation by
• Gustav Erlank, Afribike
• Bamba Thioye, RTTP Coordinator Senegal
• Paul White, ITDP

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Afribike Optimizing the use of the bicycle as a
means to improve access
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Interventions to optimize bike use

• Bicycle Skills Training
• Improving Technology
• Increasing Affordability
• Improving Bicycle Habitat
• Private Sector Development

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Senegal Project objectives

• Development Objective
• To contribute to poverty alleviation in rural
  areas by improving access to basic goods,
  services and facilities
  
• Specific Objective
• To establish a sustainable framework for
  promoting IMTs in Sénégal
  

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Description

• Component 1 Capacity Building
• Bicycle Skills Training of NGOs, Policy Makers,
  Donors, Engineers etc.
  
• Component 2 Transport Demand Survey
  incorporating gender differences
  
• Transport and Travel patterns
• Socio-Economic Data
• Performance Indicators

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Description, continue

• Component 3 Improve Access to Bicycles
• Bicycle Skills Training includes repair and
  maintenance for artisans, riding for
  beneficiaries etc.
  
• Safety Education, Bicycle Promotion,
  demonstration and Information that together
  overcome cultural barriers, negative public
  perceptions and gender bias.
• Micro Credit Schemes
• Spares Supply Lines
• 150 Appropriate Afribikes distributed with or
  through a community participatory program

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Technology

• Mountain Bikes -   "Afribikes "
• Appropriate designs
• Reliable quality
• Principal Characteristics
• Fat tyres for sandy terrain
• V brakes for back wheel on flat terrain
• Y Frames for women and men
• Rear racks
• Attractive colored bikes for women

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Project Organisation

• Project Area pilot intervention of National
  Rural Infrastructure Program (PNIR), a broader
  capacity building program of Rural Development
  and Decentralization
• Steering commitee( APCR,Abaced, Osdil,Layif,
  Pnir, FSC, Isency, Ptmr)
  
• Project Partner Afribike, SA NGO

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Financing

• Gender Rural Transport Grant Initiative
• PNIR/Transport Sector Project 2
• Private Sector