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The World Bank in November 2001
commissioned IC Net Limited of Japan to carry out a study
titled 'Integrating Gender into World Bank Financed
Transport Programs' in accord with the terms of
reference (TOR) issued in June 2001. The study was financed
by a grant from the Japanese Large Studies Trust Fund. The
contract came into effect on 15 December 2001 and covers the
period to 15 June 2004. IC Net was to work in association
with TRL Limited and the International Forum for Rural
Transport and Development, both of the United Kingdom. The
TOR defines the overall objective of the study as follows:
'to assist the World Bank and other international
development agencies, developing country governments and
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), to improve the
efficiency and equity of transport policies and programs
through ensuring that projects respond to the needs of both
women and men.' This report brings together the
findings of ten case studies from nine countries (China,
Laos, Vietnam, Bangladesh [two studies], Senegal, Lesotho,
South Africa, Uganda and Peru) for component one. A common
analytical framework for all the case studies was developed
to: understand and examine transport projects in the
framework of national gender policy, governmental resource
allocation to gender activities and gendered social
structure; and capture the gender characteristics of the
households and individuals that projects were intended to
impact upon. The case studies found a gap between the
national gender framework and inclusion of gender in the
transport sector. In other words, a gender-enabling
environment, e.g. reference to gender in the constitution
and gender focal points in many of the case study countries,
did not necessarily result in concrete gender practice
across the transport sector.
