The Sustainable Development Network’s Transport Sector of the World Bank is hosting the annual Transport Forum on March 26 – 30, 2007.  This year’s Forum will be centered on the priority themes of our updated Transport Sector Business Strategy - “safe, clean and affordable… Transport for Development.”  

The Transport Forum is the yearly marquee event when staff, who are working in the transport sector from around the world, come together to review transport’s contribution to the development agenda of fighting global poverty and to sharpen their skills for greater impact when working with clients. This year we have also collaborated with several of the other multilateral financial institutions, donors and partners engaged in financial lending, technical assistance and public sector policy dialogue that help shape policies governing the transport in developing economies. In all, we anticipate a total of 250 to 300 invited participants from the Bank’s transport sector staff, external bilateral and multilateral partners, government officials and private practitioners who are engaged in the sector to be in attendance. External attendance to the forum is by invitation only.

The Forum will consist of three days (see Forum Program ) of cross cutting thematic sessions addressing safe, clean and affordable transport for development as well as transport’s impacts on poverty reduction. The remaining two days will offer a series of Learning Events . Participants will be able to choose from a host of various half day technically oriented training courses designed to provide staff with additional tools and knowledge to be used in lending and assistance operations.

We wish to acknowledge and give special thanks to our partner organizations and speakers who have agreed to help contribute invaluable financial and expert resources for this event.

Contributing Partner and Speaker Organizations:
A.P. Møller-Maersk Group
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
AusAid
Bergamo University
COLAS S. A.
Conservation Strategy FunConservation Fund
Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) Gmbh.
Earth Track Inc.
EMBARQ
Farragut International, L.L.L.
Flight Safety Foundation
French Ministry for transport, infrastructure, tourism and the sea
Frilet & Associés
Ghana Roads Administration
Government of Chile, Ministry of Public Works
Government of India, Ministry of Rural Development
Institute for Transport and Development Policy
International Association of Ports and Cities
International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)
Le Groupement des autorités responsables de transport (GART)
National Trade Corridor Improvement Program, Pakistan
Panama Canal Authority
Railroad Development Corporation
Road Fund of Cameroun
SEERIL
Sida
Swedish National Road Administration
The Federation of East and Southern African
Road Transport Associations (FESARTA)
U.S. Department of Transportation
Umweltbundesamt (German Federal Environmental Regulatory Agency)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain