Overview

Section 1: Consulting stakeholders and building consensus
1:1 Identifying transport as the priority sector
1:2 Methods of consultation and sensitisation
1:3 Community consensus building

Section 2: Identifying the problem statement
2:1 Identification of the problem statement
2:2 Sustainable livelihoods approach
2:3 Participatory surveys
2:4 Collection of socio-economic planning data
2:5 Operator surveys
2:6 Traffic surveys
2:7 Institutional surveys
2:8 Transport poverty

Section 3: Formulating policy and action plans
3:1 Incorporating poverty into transport policy
3:2 Development of rural transport policy
3:3 Development of an action plan

Section 4: Implementing policy tools
Cross Cutting Themes
 
4:1 Gender awareness
4:2 HIV/AIDS awareness
4:3 Safety and environment
4:4 Managing low demand for transport in rural areas
4:5 Non-transport interventions

Infrastructure Provision and Management
 
4:6 Infrastructure implementation
4:7 Sectoral organisation
4:8 Management planning and local capacity
4:9 Community driven development

Provision of Means of Transport
 
4:10 Transport services implementation
4:11 Sectoral organisation and legal framework
4:12 Finance, credit and subsidy
4:13 Rural transport systems
4:14 Promoting vehicle choice/IMTs

Section 5: Applying monitoring tools
5:1 Safeguard measures
5:2 Monitoring livelihoods
 
 
References

Appendices
A Transport and sustainable livelihoods
B Participatory mapping checklist
C Household questionnaire
D Vehicle operator questionnaire
E Rural traffic counting methods
F Institutional planning checklist
G Rural access programme in Nepal
H Cameroon case study and action plan
I Decentralisation checklist
J Funding and funds allocation checklist
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