Transport Management
Transaid’s key area of focus is on improving transport management skills and training. The Transaid Transport Management System (TMS) is our main tool and has five key components:
1. Human resource
2. Policy
3. Fleet management
4. Management information
5. Operational management.
It also uses seven key performance indicators to determine the efficiency of a system. The Transaid Transport Management Handbook outlines these principles in further detail.
Transaid TMS can be used by organisations running fleets of any size and succeeds because it empowers everyone who has a responsibility for transport, from the driver to the transport manager and anyone else within the organisation who uses the transport. The system has been used to make dramatic improvements to service delivery across Ministries of Health in Africa and has also been utilised to improve the supply chain of health commodities.
While much of Transaid’s work in TMS has focused on improving healthcare, the system has also been applied to other public and private sector organisations such as the Female Market Traders Cooperative in Ghana where it was used to improve livelihoods.
• About the Transaid Transport Management System
• The Transaid Transport Management Handbook
*Proverb pinned on the wall at the Ministry of Health in Accra, Ghana.
Current and past projects:
Democratic Republic of Congo
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Fleet and Transport Management Review, May 2009
Ghana
- Ghana, Ministry of Health Transport Policy, 1993-1999
Kenya
- Kenya, A District Based Transport System for Health, Coast Province, 2005-2007
Mozambique
- Mozambique, Fleet Maintenance Review, Department of Health, Tete Province, May 2009
- Mozambique, Fleet Assessment and Transport Analysis, Department of Health, Tete Province - September 2007
Nigeria
- Nigeria, Programme for Reviving Routine Immunization in Four Northern States, 2007 – 2011
Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation Transport Situation Analysis, 2006
South Africa
- South Africa, Department of Health Transport Management, 1998-2005
Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka, Pre and Post-Tsunami Transport Management, 2004-2005
Zambia
- Fleet Assessment & Transport Situation Analysis for the Ministry of Health, Zambia, September 2007
