Background and context

The TRISP demand assessment phase and Knowledge Demand Assessment Project
The World Bank/DFID Transport and Rural Infrastructure Services Learning and Sharing Project (TRISP) aims to strengthen the demand for, and improve access to relevant knowledge for stakeholders working in transport and rural utilities in developing countries. The first ‘demand assessment’ phase seeks to provide insights into three sets of questions:

1. What information is required and by whom to increase the impact of knowledge in transport and rural utilities in developing countries?
2. What is the most appropriate way of targeting relevant information, raising awareness of its existence and making it accessible to the relevant stakeholders?
3. What polices and guidelines already exist which can be developed and disseminated more widely?

This document provides some interim results from the on-going Knowledge Demand Assessment Project, a participatory investigation to:

• Review of what is known about patterns and processes of knowledge demand from the literature, and what are the gaps in this understanding;
• Assessment of the expressed and latent demand for information and knowledge by different categories of the stakeholder community dealing with transport issues;
• Patterns of information use by each category of stakeholder, and constraints to effective access and uptake;
• Map of the knowledge and learning environments in the World Bank and DFID and their transport information products with intended audiences, circulation and evidence of impact

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