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Forum News

Forum News is IFRTD's regular newsletter. Each issue explores a particular theme related to rural transport from the perspective of our members. We welcome contributions to Forum News. Please email the editor@ifrtd.org for more information.

Forum News is distributed free of charge to all IFRTD members in English, French or Spanish. Please click here to join IFRTD and receive your copy. Forum News is also available in Acrobat (pdf) format below. Editions prior to the millennium issue are available as html downloads and French and Spanish language versions are also available here online.

 

 

Forum News Archive:

Forum News 16.2: Climate change and rural roads
February 8, 2013

 

Forum News 16.1: Accessible Transport
March 27, 2012

 

Forum News 15.4: Transport in the mountains
July 12, 2011

 

Forum News 15.3: Why are we still talking about women headloading?
November 9, 2010

 

Forum News 15.2: Health and Transport: a pioneering partnership
November 8, 2010

 

Forum News 15.1: A Moving Issue: Children and young people's transport and mobility constraints in Africa.
May 28, 2010

 

Forum News 14.4: Building the Links (Climate Change and Rural Transport)
May 15, 2010

 

Forum News 14.3: A New Road Ahead - an independent IFRTD
December 1, 2009

 

Forum News 14.2: The Bicycle Debates
June 1, 2008

 

Forum News 14.1: Checks and Balances – Governance in Rural Transport and Development.
December 6, 2007

 

A Networked Research Approach - a guide to conducting research in a network setting.
November 6, 2007

 

Forum News 13.4: Where are we now? - The State of Rural Transport and Development
July 7, 2007

 

Forum News 13.3: Time to Broaden the Transport Safety Debate?
February 0, 2007

 

Forum News 13.2: Measuring what Matters?
November 2, 2006

 

Forum News 13.1: Transport Hubs: A new perspective for rural transport services
June 2, 2006

 

Forum News 12.4: Poverty Watch: Making transport count in poverty reduction
February 2, 2006

 

Forum News 12.3: Rural Transport for a Greener Future
December 2, 2005

 

Forum News 12.2: Passive Recipients to Active Participants
September 2, 2005

 

Forum News 12.1: Reconstructing Vulnerability or Reconstruction with Change?
March 2, 2005

 

Forum News 11.4: Transport Sector Joins Fight Against HIV/AIDS
April 2, 2004

 

Forum News 11.3: From Rhetoric to Practice
January 2, 2004

 

Forum News 11.2: Transport - The Missing Link?
October 2, 2003

 

Forum News 11.1: Crossing Borders
July 2, 2003

 

Forum News 10.4: Waterways and Livelihoods
April 3, 2003

 

Forum News 10.3: Making Transport Work for the Poor
March 3, 2003

 

Forum News 10.2: Virtual Access - Taking the Super Highway
October 3, 2002

 

Forum News 10.1: Reducing Risk and Accelerating Recovery
July 3, 2002

 

Forum News 9.4: Moving Mountains
April 1, 2002

 

Forum News 9.3: Community Driven
January 3, 2002

 

Forum News 9.2: Good Governance and Capacity Building, 2 Sides of the Same Coin
October 3, 2001

 

Forum News 9.1: Listening to Different Voices, Multi-Modal Planning
June 3, 2001

 

Forum News 8.4: Transport Safety is it a Rural Issue?
May 3, 2001

 

Forum News 8.3: Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Groups
February 3, 2001

 

Forum News 8.2: Too Fast, Too Slow? - Fiscal Policy in the Transport Sector
September 3, 2000

 

Forum News 8.1: Transport with Animal Power
June 3, 2000

 

Forum News 7.4: Bridges: linking Rural Communities to Livelihoods
May 3, 2000

 

Forum News 7.3: The Forum Looks to the Future
January 3, 2000

 

Forum News 7.2: Rural Transport in Latin America
September 1, 1999

 

Forum News 7.1: Sustainable Rural Livelihoods
June 1, 1999

 

Forum News 6.4: Gender and Transport
March 1, 1999

 

Forum News 6.3: Engineering for Transport
December 1, 1998

 

Forum News 6.2: Networking
September 1, 1998

 

Forum News 6.1: Maintenance
June 1, 1998

 

Forum News 5.4: Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning
March 1, 1998

 

Forum News 5.3: Community Participation
December 1, 1997

 

Forum News 5.2: Financing Rural Transport
September 1, 1997

 

Forum News 5.1: Bicycles
July 1, 1997

 

Forum News 4.4: Donor Agency Initiatives
April 1, 1997

 

Forum News 4.3: Water Transport
December 1, 1996

 

Forum News 4.2: Global Transport Issues
September 1, 1996

 

Forum News 4.1: Research and Training: Changing the Agenda
June 1, 1996