Putting Rural Transport on the Agenda for Multilateral Development, Lessons from Asia
The analysis includes an assessment of the transferability of the lessons to other global regions, in particular Africa
Abstract
A Rural Transport pre-event was organised between ReCAP, SLoCaT, the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the UN Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) and the Lao PDR government, ahead of the 10th Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum for Asia, in March 2017. Following this capacity building pre-event, the EST Forum itself culminated in the adoption of the Vientiane Declaration on Sustainable Rural Transport towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Based on the successful example in Asia, this Report explores for ReCAP the option to support a similar process in the African region. The Report examines how ReCAP can influence the appropriate actors and stakeholders in the African region and play a catalysing role, providing research evidence to support the process. The Report provides lessons learnt in elevating the topic of rural transport and rural access to the agenda of the multilateral development discourse in Asia, in particular, the experience of the EST Forum for Asia. The analysis within the Report includes an assessment of the transferability of the lessons to other global regions, in particular Africa.
This work is part of the Applied Research on Rural Roads and Transport Services through Community Access Programmes in Africa and Asia (AFCAP2 and AsCAP)
Citation
O’Neill, P. (2018). Putting Rural Transport on the Agenda for Multilateral Development – Lessons from Asia. London: ReCAP for DFID.
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