This tool is to be used for gathering information from women regarding birth, maternal emergencies, danger signs and transport. It is used for gathering information to understand the process a woman and her family go through during pregnancy, delivery and emergencies in regard to what actions are taken if any, including transport. This tool can be used to gather data for a baseline, midline and endline study. It can also be used as an assessment tool to inform a design process around emergency transport.
This tool was initially designed for and used during Transaid’s Emergency Transport Scheme (ETS) in northern Nigeria. In 2013, Transaid was awarded with the five-year grant from Comic Relief to set up the Emergency Transport Scheme in Adamawa State. The ETS encourages local taxi drivers from the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to transport women to health centres free of charge or at minimal cost when they are faced with complications. To read more about this programme, please click here and to for the tool, please see link below.
This tool is to be used for gathering information from heads of households to determine the current socio-economic status of the household, as well as some other basic information on transport and communications during a maternal emergency. This tool can be used to gather data for a baseline, midline and endline study. It can also be used as an assessment tool to inform a design process around emergency transport.
This tool was initially designed for and used during Transaid’s Emergency Transport Scheme (ETS) in northern Nigeria. In 2013, Transaid was awarded with the five-year grant from Comic Relief to set up the Emergency Transport Scheme in Adamawa State. The ETS encourages local taxi drivers from the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to transport women to health centres free of charge or at minimal cost when they are faced with complications. To read more about this programme, please click here and to for the tool, please see link below.
This manual comprises a self-directed course on managing sustainable, cost-effective transport management systems for Ministries of Health and other organizations implementing public health programs. It is to be used by local managers of public health services.
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This tool should be used to determine the ability of a public sector organisation to manage a third party logistics contract.
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This tool should be used to enable national medical stores to assess the capacity and experience of Third Party Logistics providers. This tool is most useful when 3PLs also are able to provide client references to show examples of the nature and scale of their existing contracts, and the degree to which they are delivering against agreed service levels. The tool was recently used during Transaid’s trip to Sudan, to assess the cost effectiveness and operational performance of the outsourced transport provider used by the National Medical Stores Fund (NMSF). During the visit the Transaid Team also reviewed NMSF’s in-house fleet management and met with representatives of the new Abdel¬hamid Ibrahim Training Center to discuss and provide transport-specific training content.
The tool was used to undertake an assessment of NMSF’s main transport provider, Suda-Post, in their role of delivering medicines from the NMSF warehouses in Khartoum to regional stores in each state. It was used to review Suda-post’s fleet size and the number of drivers dedicated to NMSF’s operations, the level of transport training provided for staff, the rigour of their Key Performance Indicator data, and there service provision including reporting and proof of delivery tracking. Ultimately this assessment identified a number of areas for operational improvement, albeit with a recognition that the Suda-Post and NMSF teams are clearly dedicated and professional albeit with some resources challenges.
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On the 9th of May 2017 Transaid facilitated a workshop on ‘Transforming rural access: motorcycles, low-cost infrastructure and appropriate standards on behalf of ReCAP at the 8th Transportation Technology Transfer Conference in Zambia. In many countries motorcycles and motorcycle taxis are the most common vehicles and may account for 75% of passenger and freight transport on Low Volume Rural Roads. ReCAP has funded recent research on motorcycle taxis and recently organised a webinar on motorcycles, which was attended by people from 24 different countries. The Transportation Technology Transfer (T2) conference was therefore an excellent opportunity to build on the momentum of these activities and facilitate discussion and dissemination on this important topic.
This report describes the context of the workshop, the discussions that took place as well as future recommendations. See below.
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The following tools are designed to be used for the monitoring and evaluation of driver training. They can be used as pre and post driver training assessments to demonstrate improvements in knowledge as a result of undergoing training.
The assessments include a list of driving elements each of which are assessed and should be given a rating of either ‘Good’, ‘Satisfactory’ or ‘Unsatisfactory’. The assessment matrix provides a guide to the assessor making it easier for them to identify the correct rating. The assessment also includes an area for feedback and recommendations. Recommendations should focus on how the driver (student or trainer) can improve their performance.
The following tool is designed to be used for the monitoring and evaluation of driver training. This assessment tool is designed to be used to assess the training provided by the trainer, including the content and the way in which it is delivered.
The assessment is divided into four sections. Each section contains several elements. Each of these elements should be rated ‘Good’, ‘Satisfactory’ and/or ‘Unsatisfactory’. The assessment matrix acts as a guide for the assessor to make it easier to identify the correct rating. The assessment includes an area for feedback and recommendations. Recommendations should focus on how the trainer could have better delivered the training to benefit the students.
This free, introductory webinar on the topic of Motorcycle Taxis in the rural context of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia was held on Thursday 6th of April 2017. This was a Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP) event, made possible with funding from the Department for International Development and facilitated by Transaid.
ReCAP is a six-year programme of applied research and knowledge dissemination funded by a grant from the UK Government through the DfID. The overall aim is to promote safe and sustainable rural access in Africa and Asia through research and knowledge sharing between participating countries and the wider community. Transaid would like to thank ReCAP; as without their support, this webinar would not have been possible.
The webinar brought together African and Asian transport research practitioners, from within research institutes and universities, regulators and practitioners. Our panel of experts included Mr. Leo Ngowi from the Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority in Tanzania (SUMATRA), Dr. Elizabeth Ekirapa Kiracho from Makerere University in Uganda and Mr. Felix Wilhelm Siebert from the Technical University of Berlin. The discussion was moderated by Caroline Barber, Head of Programmes at Transaid who invited participants to ask questions as well as to contribute ideas for further research into this topic.
Please click here to listen to the recording of the webinar. To view the webinar presentations (available in English and French) and other related materials please click on the resources below.
Development partners and donors have encouraged and incentivized governments in developing countries to explore ways of working with third-party service suppliers to reduce costs and increase service delivery capacity. The distribution of vaccines and medicines has for a long time shown demand for outsourcing but public health systems have struggled to develop the expertise and capital assets necessary to manage such ventures.
Existing transport and logistics capacity within public health systems, in particular, is well documented as being insufficient to support existing, let alone future immunization needs. Today, a number of countries are contracting party logistics providers (3PLs) to supplement the in-house distribution operations of public health systems. This commentary reflects on recent, leading examples of outsourcing initiatives to address critical gaps in transport and logistics