Sustainability
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its core are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aiming to end poverty, improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our land and sea.
Transaid’s work aligns closely with several of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. These include working to reduce poverty and inequality, improve good health and well-being for all, and promote decent work and economic growth.
Transaid puts sustainable and accountable practices at the heart of what we do. This helps us to ensure that we are responsible for our actions and the impact that our projects have on individuals, communities and the environment.
Read more about the Sustainable Development Goals below.
No Poverty
Transaid works to ensure that essential medical information and services are available to remote and underserved communities, reducing the burden of disease and improving lives. Through our training programmes, we support people to build the skills they need to transform their future.
Good Health and Well-Being
Transaid works to improve transport systems across sub-Saharan Africa, supporting target 3.6 (to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes), and ensures timely access to healthcare facilities, supporting target 3.3 (to end malaria and other diseases.)
Gender Equality
Transaid supports professional female drivers and transport operators with training and finding full-time employment, and improves access to healthcare services, particularly maternal and reproductive health, which disproportionately affect women in the countries where Transaid works.
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Transaid provides training and capacity building in the transport and logistics sector, enhancing access to job opportunities and creating safer and more sustainable employment. Transaid also works to strengthen health supply chains, fostering healthy, productive communities to promote sustainable livelihoods and sustain economic growth.
Reduced Inequalities
Transaid is committed to improving access to transport for underserved communities, reducing inequalities by ensuring equitable access to healthcare and economic opportunities, supporting vulnerable populations, and promoting inclusive development.
Sustainable Cities and Communities
Transaid improves transport systems, enhances road safety, promotes sustainable mobility, and builds resilience in urban areas, with an overarching aim to create inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities and communities.
Climate Action
Transaid is tackling climate change through sustainable transportation solutions. By promoting eco-friendly modes of transport, reducing carbon emissions, safe and fuel-efficient driving and building resilience to climate-related risks. Transaid’s MAMaZ Against Malaria programme aims to reduce preventable deaths from severe malaria, it is estimated that climate change will cause 60,000 additional malaria deaths annually by 2050, according to the WHO.
Partner for the Goals
We are a unique organisation that works with partners and governments to address transport challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. We couldn’t make a tangible, sustainable difference without our global partnerships and corporate supporter base, who are committed to improving global road safety and strengthening health supply chains.
