The study

To make it manageable, the study concentrates on transport, rather than the more general rural infrastructure services such as water, energy, small-scale technologies etc, since the focus on the ‘demand for information’ rather than ‘demand for actual services’ will identify issues relevant across all sectors. The study will include:

• a literature review,
• interviews with key informants in the World Bank, DFID and other organisations working in the sector
• an electronic questionnaire to a broad group of stakeholders
• stakeholder workshops in the UK, Peru and Zimbabwe
• correspondence with the main transport information providers
• an e-conference based on information posted on a project web-site, and
• follow-up dialogue with key staff in DFID and the World Bank

Urban transport, and its related infrastructure issues such as environmental safety and emissions etc., and the public campaigns that have featured in that arena have not been tackled in this study.

Constraints & Limitations
Although conceived in early 2002, and activities commenced in May, a contract for the study was not received until mid-November, causing considerable disruption to the original plan for implementation. In particular the e-mail surveys which should have been implemented before, and contributed to discussions at the stakeholder workshops, and the web-site which should have provided information to stimulate discussions with key stakeholders have not yet been completed.

This report will provide an overview of what has been learned to date, and indicate areas where further information is expected before the study is complete.

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