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Author and Title	Bryceson, Deborah Faby; John Howe, "African Rural Households and Transport; Reducing the Burden of Women"
Article in	IHE working Paper IP-2, International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE), Delft, The Netherlands, July 1992, 33pp
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End use	Transport
Energy technology
Issue	Women's needs
Level	Research
Description	Rural household travel patterns are largely ignored in African transport studies. Since 1985, however, village-level surveys have been undertaken which reveal the pre-eminent female portage in rural transport activities. Donor agencies are now focussing efforts on ‘appropriate' transport technology interventions to directly enhance rural mobility and to indirectly improve agricultural productivity. Preliminary evidence, however, suggests that men rather then women are the main beneficiaries of appropriate transport technology. This paper asks why and suggests a number of methodological refinements to future rural transport studies to generate the necessary information for devising programmes with a higher likelihood of effective assistance to women transporters.

This bibliography item provided with financial support of the Department for International Development of the UK Government (DFID) and ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy