The project aims to provide access to fast, quality COVID-19 screening for truck drivers at select border crossings in Uganda. The initiative aims to help reduce the spread and impact of COVID-19 and lessen the economic burden on transport companies by offering rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. If the evidence supports national policy change, Phase 2 will only require drivers to take an RDT test.
Following a training provided by Transaid and Safe Way Right Way (SWRW) in the target areas of Busia and Malaba, transport associations operating near the two target border posts carried out sensitisation of arriving and departing national and international truck drivers per border crossing about the study as well as about basic COVID-19 information including signs and symptoms, prevention, what to do if you have symptoms and the importance of vaccines.
These messages were included in the COVID-19 fact sheets below, which were distributed to drivers during sensitisation to raise around COVID-19 symptoms and safe practices.
Click below to download the fact sheets.
Since 2016, Transaid’s Professional Driver Training – Uganda (PDTU) project has been working to improve the capacity of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and passenger service vehicle (PSV) drivers in Uganda. The COVID-19 pandemic, first recorded in Uganda in March 2020, has added a number of new challenges for professional truck drivers at a time when the need to maintain vital supplies of foods, medicines and other essential assistance is increasingly falling to road transporters.
Despite the risk of exposure, truck drivers have continued to work through unpredictable and deteriorating working conditions, whilst facing increased scrutiny and stigma particularly as many of the new cases of COVID-19 being reported in Uganda are from long distance drivers being tested at the borders.
In response, Transaid and Safe Way Right Way have partnered with transporter unions in Uganda to produce truck driver-specific COVID-19 information and key road safety messaging. Due to the nature of their work, truck drivers are often away from home for several weeks at a time and work irregular hours, so in addition to printed factsheets and face to face sensitisation, three radio jingles were produced to increase the reach and coverage of our messaging.
All three jingles were recorded in Uganda and are available in English, Luganda and Swahili.
Since 2016, Transaid’s Professional Driver Training – Uganda project (PDTU) has been working to improve the capacity of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and passenger service vehicle (PSV) drivers in Uganda. The COVID-19 pandemic, first recorded in Uganda in March 2020, has added a number of new challenges for professional truck drivers at a time when the need to maintain vital supplies of foods, medicines and other essential assistance is increasingly falling to road transporters.
Despite the risk of exposure, truck drivers have continued to work through unpredictable and deteriorating working conditions, whilst facing increased scrutiny and stigma particularly as many of the new cases of COVID-19 being reported in Uganda are from long distance drivers being tested at the borders.
In response, Transaid and Safe Way Right Way have partnered with transporter unions in Uganda to produce truck driver-specific COVID-19 information and key road safety messaging, which will be delivered along with a package of essential personal protective equipment (PPE) as part of a wider sensitisation campaign.
Click below to view the Truck Driver COVID-19 Sensitisation Poster in English, Luganda, Swahili and French.
Since 2016, Transaid’s Professional Driver Training – Uganda project (PDTU) has been working to improve the capacity of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and passenger service vehicle (PSV) drivers in Uganda. The COVID-19 pandemic, first recorded in Uganda in March 2020, has added a number of new challenges for professional truck drivers at a time when the need to maintain vital supplies of foods, medicines and other essential assistance is increasingly falling to road transporters.
Despite the risk of exposure, truck drivers have continued to work through unpredictable and deteriorating working conditions, whilst facing increased scrutiny and stigma particularly as many of the new cases of COVID-19 being reported in Uganda are from long distance drivers being tested at the borders.
In response, Transaid and Safe Way Right Way have partnered with transporter unions in Uganda to produce truck driver-specific COVID-19 information and key road safety messaging, which will be delivered along with a package of essential personal protective equipment (PPE) as part of a wider sensitisation campaign.
Click below to view the Truck Driver COVID-19 Cab Cleaning Guide in English, Luganda, Swahili and French.
This tool (the spreadsheet) is to be used to keep track of healthcare vehicles belonging to a Ministry of Health. It keeps a record of all of the journeys made so that the transport manager knows where the driver has been, how many kilometres they have travelled and how much fuel has been used. This information should then be consolidated regularly in order to monitor trends in perfomance.
The summary form used to summarise the log book data on a regular basis, for example, monthly so that those responsible for transport can see the overall fleet performance, analyse trends and make informed decisions on how to improve the efficacy of the fleet.
These tools are in both English and Swahili.
Tool type: Logbook/Guidelines
This tool is to be used to report on any faults or defects in a vehicle.
Tool type: Checklist