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Forum News 12.4: Poverty Watch: Making transport count in poverty reduction

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 Poverty Watch is an ongoing international programme initiated by the IFRTD to spotlight the interface between transport and poverty reduction. Its aims are twofold:


●To identify, profile, and promote the dimensions of transport that are important for poverty reduction.
●To nurture the role of civil society in monitoring and influencing; the design of transport sector policies, transport investment programmes, and the inclusion of mobility and access issues within key national development policies.
 
The process for achieving these objectives is the mobilisation and capacity building of civil society to carry out analytical work on the links between transport and poverty, and to implement that knowledge through policy advocacy or practical interventions.Through this approach Poverty Watch is building a critical mass of interested stakeholders capable of debating the issues and identifying key priorities for a transport and poverty agenda in each country.

This extended edition of Forum News presents snapshots of selected country studies and regional syntheses. It also presents a draft Transport and Poverty Monitoring [TPM] Framework which is a key output of the first phase of the Poverty Watch programme.
 
Format: Bulletin
Date: February 2006
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