TANZANIA – VREF

Inequality in Walking the 24 hour city: temporality, intersectionality and the embodied experience in Dar es Salaam, Tshwane and Cardiff

WK-2023-EP-03Project Leader: Margot RubinsSpatial Planning, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK Partners: Abstract: Walking as a mode of transport is unequally accessed and experienced. Intersectional factors of identity such as race, class, ethnicity and gender, to name a few, influence the ways in which walking is practiced and how different people navigate and

Exploring the Personal Burden and Value of Pedestrian Experiences of Women from Low Income Backgrounds in Nairobi and Dar–Salaam

WK-2023-EP-09Project leader: Violet WavireKenyatta University, School of Education, Kenya. Partners: Abstract: Due to urban population growth, poor city planning and poverty, urban low income women in major African cities have been marginalized from formal transport systems comprising private cars, taxis and motorcycle transport services. They comprise the over half of the population of people who

Exploring strategies for enhancing poor women’s mobility and access to boda boda (Motorcycle) taxi services in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam

Kenyatta University, School of Education, Nairobi, Kenya. EP-2022-MAC-06, Dr. Wawire, Violet K. Abstract Due to urban population growth, poor city planning and poverty, urban poor women in major African cities have been marginalized from formal transport systems comprising private cars and taxis. Yet, they are still required to perform multiple reproductive and productive roles on

Assessing stakeholder perspectives for efficient allocation of paratransit towards mitigating unequal access to opportunities in sub-Saharan African Cities

MAC-2022-EP-02, Project ledare: Gift DumedahRegional Transport Research and Education Centre Kumasi (TRECK), KNUST, Ghana Abstract Adequate access to paratransit is a welfare and livelihood issue in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a challenge which is especially heightened in informal urban communities. Most SSA cities could collapse without paratransit services, evidenced by severe impacts on cities whenever transport

Mapping unequal accessibility to socioeconomic and cultural opportunities in informal urban settlements across two Sub-Sahara African Cities

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi, Ghana EP-2021-MAC-03, Gift Dumedah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi, Ghana Partners: Project Team – Ghana Charles Adams – Dept of Civil Engineering, Regional Transport Research and Education Centre Kumasi (TRECK), KNUST, Ghana Esmeranda Manful – Dept of Sociology and Social Work, KNUST,