by Yuxin Wang | Mar 13, 2017 | News
A set of key messages on rural transport and SDGs has been developed to explain how rural transport plays a key role in realizing the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by world governments to define development policy up to 2030. Improved rural transport is key in...
by Alice Yiu | Feb 3, 2017 | News
The SLoCaT Partnership is promoting the improvement of rural transport in partnership with, and support of the UK Aid-funded Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP). A new joint project, “Promotion of Sustainable Rural Access in the implementation of the...
by Alice Yiu | Feb 22, 2016 | News
Presently, one billion people worldwide lack easy access to an all-season road and thus live in isolation, which is a major contributor to the poverty and marginalization of rural populations. While 58% of developing country populations live in rural areas, 78%...
by SLOCAT | Aug 28, 2015 | News
The latest annual Africa Progress Report, Power, People, Planet: Seizing Africa’s Energy and Climate Opportunities, published by the Africa Progress Panel (APP), describes how African governments, the international public and the private sector can transform the...
by SLOCAT | Jul 9, 2015 | News
The Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) is seeking comments on the draft discussion paper: Financing Rural Transport Services in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities. The discussion paper is developed with support of the UK...
