transport

Road Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction in China

The objective of this IFPRI study is to assess the impact of public infrastructure on growth and poverty reduction in China, paying particular attention to the contribution of roads. It includes indicators on transport infrastructure for LED. The study is interesting as it demonstrates that relatively low cost improvements (e.g. within the means of local stakeholders) can promote strong economic growth.

The Impact of Roads and Agricultural Extension on Consumption Growth

This Oxford paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of poverty in rural Ethiopia. The study includes examples of indicators on transport infrastructure for LED.

Do Roads Bring Jobs to People?

This article is based on the World Bank research effort to examine the effectiveness of government interventions in “lagging regions”. The research points out that roads are necessary to expand trade and production, but that they do not necessarily bring jobs to people, since firms base their location decisions on a wide range of factors.

Impact Evaluation of Rural Road Projects

This paper by Dominique van de Walle provides a discussion of the challenges connected to assessing the impact of rural transport infrastructure interventions.

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I'm Ahmed Eiweida.  Take a look at Alexandria CDS, with important works on LED (SWOT, Competitiveness, BEE at the local level, Toursim & CH, PPP in managing Indutrial Zones, and others).

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Strengthening Agricultural Technologoes among People Living with HIV

Partners worked together to promote the use of appropriate technologies to improve productivity of small-scale agricultural activities implemented by people living with HIV (PLHIV) under the Regional Outreach Addressing AIDS through Development Strategies (ROADS) Project implemented by FHI in the two border towns of Busia, Kenya, and Busia, Uganda (figure 1). This activity was funded by USAID/East Africa.

The process involved identifying simple technologies to increase farm and garden outputs and linking clusters of people living with HIV (PLHIV) with local agricultural institutions including the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA),

Department of Culture and Social Services, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), and Busia Agricultural Training Centre (BATC) in Kenya and the MOA, Ministry of Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), and National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) in Uganda, as well as community development officers, community-based organizations (CBOs), and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the districts. FANTA facilitated the development of a participatory learning process to motivate groups of PLHIV to learn the new technologies to increase farm and garden output.

Thanks to USAID Dec Express

I have been approached by members looking for project ideas on developing infrastructure projects that specifically target LED and local job and entrepreneurship creation. When I see our resources on water and sanitation as well as transport, it is clear we have a long way to go to capture project ideas and methods and established practice as well as  new ideas. Do you have ideas on how we can ensure that local jobs and skills can be created in conjunction with infrastructure projects?

Can we start sharing ideas now?

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Transportation Planning Resource Guide

This detailed guide provides basic transport planning related information to help practitioners through the planning and make decisions related to transportation at the local level. Although written for a U.S. audience, it contains widely applicable and practical.

The Impact of Roads and Agricultural Extension on Consumption, Growth and Poverty in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages

Do you need evidence that private investment in roads and agricultural extension could play a role in growth and faster poverty reduction in rural locations? Find some here from Ethiopia in this recent empirical study.

Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning- Participatory Rural Appraisal

The document provides rationale, implementation phases and expectations from this set of local level rural infrastructure planning tools, which employ participatory techniques and foster capacity building for local governance structures.