The Challenges in Addressing Gender Dimensions of Transport in Developing Countries: Lessons from the World Bank's Projects (PDF, 299KB), J. Riverson et. al. World Bank, 2005
Supporting presentation (PDF, 2MB)

Integrating Gender into World Bank Financed Transport Programs (PDF, 276KB)
Case summary and final report (2004) by IC Net Limited

IFRTD Forum News January 2004 (PDF, 90KB)
IFRTD newsletter reporting on the study

Gender and Transport Strategy for Africa (PDF, 109KB)
World Bank gender and transport strategy (1999)

Case Study on the Role of Women in Transport: Access of Women to Domestic
Facilities (PDF, 6KB) Christina Malmberg-Calvo, SSATP Working Paper (1994)

Gender in Road Infrastructure (PDF, 132KB)
2005 presentation by Shireen Lateef of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the positive and negative aspects of road infrastructure on women. Examples from Cambodia, India and Bangladesh.

Why Transport Matters – Contributions of the Transport Sector towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (PDF, 1.3MB)
GTZ publication on the role of transport to achieve the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), including a focus on achieving gender equality (MDG 3).

Engendering Mobility:
Towards Improved Gender Analysis in the Transport Sector (PDF, 268KB)
Paper on gender analysis in urban transport by South African academics, advocating use of Caroline Moser's framework for gender analysis in the transport sector. Chapter 6 of Sex, Gender, Becoming: Post Apartheid Reflections ed. Karen von Marie, published by Pretoria University Press 2006.

January 2007 ITF newsletter focuses on female transport workers (PDF, 11MB)
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is an international trade union federation of 651 transport workers' unions, representing 4.5 million transport workers in 148 countries. The ITF represents the interests of transport workers' unions in bodies which take decisions affecting jobs, employment conditions or safety in the transport industry including those of female transport workers.

Women's Handbook: Women Transporting the World (PDF, 3.2MB), 2002

Resource Pack: Making Unions Stronger (PDF, 1.6MB) -- ITF has introduced a resource pack which includes some guidelines, along with a powerpoint presentation and an ITF film, to help transport unions develop and grow via gender work. Click here from more information.

Gender-Responsive Social Analysis: A Guidance Note Incorporating Social Dimensions into Bank-Supported Projects (PDF, 6.1MB)

These guidelines prepared by the WB Social Development Department on "what and how" to integrate gender within projects are intended for development stakeholders when considering how best to integrate attention to social issues in their development efforts. Definitions of the gender vocabulary, an introduction to gender-responsive social analysis, and summaries of gender issues in the regions are included. The Rural Roads and Markets Improvement and Maintenance in Bangladesh and a rural transport services initiative in Ghana are highlighted as good practice examples.

World Bank Gender Action Plan (PDF, 289KB)
The Gender Action Plan (FY07-10) reflects the Bank’s commitment in intensifying gender equality work in the economic sectors over the next 4 years in partnership with client countries, donors and other development agencies. The plan targets women’s empowerment in the economic sectors, most importantly, infrastructure—energy, transport, and water and sanitation; agriculture; private sector development; and finance.

Gender and Transport Resources Guide 
Comprehensive website with information on transport and gender issues. This Resource Guide can also be utilized as a training tool.

World Bank Gender and Infrastructure

Gender and Transport Thematic Group -- Grants & Pilots for FY99-FY00

Balancing the Load
program of the International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD)
The program initiated in 1996 analyzes how gender relations affect women and men's access to goods and services and influence the provision of transport infrastructure and services. The program carried out 40 case studies in Asia and Africa and shared the findings with a wider audience through regional and international seminars and through the publication of the full case studies in a book; Balancing the Load; Women, gender and Transport (2002) The Forum currently provides the secretarial functions for the gender and transport network GATNET

GATNET

Discussion group of a community of practice that began with a program on
mainstreaming Gender into the World Bank's Transport Sector. It is open to all those
who are interested in issues relating to improving mobility and access for poor women
and men in developing countries

The Gender Audit, Transport Studies Unit, University of East London
The Gender Audit has been commissioned by the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), to find out about women´s transport needs and how they can be met. The main output of the research will be a checklist of desirable attributes of transport policies, plans and systems.