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Transaid delivers Maintenance Management Course, Zambia, April 2008
Transaid was recently requested to assist in the delivery of a Maintenance Management Course delivered by the Industrial Training Centre Trust in Lusaka, Zambia. The trainees included delegates from the Zambian Health and Communications Trust, Celtel - the mobile phone network company Celtel with a fleet of over 300 vehicles - and the Kafue Gorge Regional Training Centre which delivers hydro-electric and water turbine maintenance courses.
Female Market Trader Project, Accra, Ghana, March 2008
Female market traders face exceptionally daunting difficulties every day of their lives. Reliance on unsuitable and unreliable transport is expensive, time-consuming and unsafe, with the risk of theft or assault posing a likely threat. Transaid is working with the private sector to assist market women to own, manage and control their own fleet of transport to relieve the women traders of the burden and hardship associated with their trading.
GRSP and Transaid Joint Training for Namibian Road Engineers, 3 March 2008
Transaid, in partnership with the Global Road Safety Partnership in Namibia have conducted a one day training session for 13 Road Engineers from both Namibia’s government and the private sector. The training which took place at the Construction Industry Federation headquarters in Windhoek had two aims; firstly to promote awareness of the importance of non infrastructure related concepts in the achievement of safer roads, and secondly to highlight and analyse some specific engineering problems in the City of Windhoek as a base for discussing the role of engineering n road safety.
Transaid working together with Concern, February 2008
Concern Worldwide started its operation in Zambia in September 2003. Currently Concern has two long term programmes i.e. Livelihood and HIV/Aids being implemented in partnership with local government and civil society organisations. In September 2007 Transaid conducted an Operational Assessment of Concern Zambia’s transport management. Following the submission of the assessment report Concern commissioned Transaid to deliver a course in the Basics of Transport Management for their four Transport Officers and a Driver Training Course for their five drivers in February 2008.
Transaid trains St John Ambulance Drivers in Zambia, November 2007
In November 2007 St John Zambia received a donation of an ambulance to help them operate more effectively in delivering health services to the local communities where they operate. To satisfy St John’s requirement for driver training, Transaid facilitated the execution of a training course utilising one of Transaid’s partners; Tony Walsh a senior instructor who has much experience delivering driver training courses throughout Africa.
Fleet Assessment & Transport Situation Analysis for the Ministry of Health in Zambia, September 2007
In 2004, Transaid completed a Situational Analysis within the Zambian Ministry of Health (Moh) to assess the current status of the fleet, and evaluate the existing systems and processes used to manage the Ministry’s transport. Late in 2004 it was established that the two key government health service delivery organizations; the Ministry of Health and Central Board of Health would soon undergo a reform to create one organization. During the reform process it was not possible to implement the recommendations of the 2004 report, and later, in 2007 when the reform was coming to an end it was deemed necessary to update the findings of the report via the execution of a 4 week in-country study funded by DFID. This study was conducted in September 2007.
