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A round-up of key achievements of our charity partner Transaid


As the charity partner of the annual BIFA Awards, Transaid has benefited from the generosity of BIFA Members. Below, Transaid gives a taste of what it has achieved thanks to your support


Nelima, a trainee from the Professional Driver Training – Uganda (PDTU) project


Over the last 12 months, Transaid and its partners have worked hard to transform lives through providing safe, available and sustainable transport, focusing on its two core areas: professional driver training and access to healthcare.


Driver training The latest statistics estimate that 1.35 million people die on the world’s roads each year, with a further 20-50 million people suffering injury and/or disability (WHO, 2018). Over the past 12 months we have continued to work for safer roads in sub-Saharan Africa through our professional driver training programmes, enriched by the expertise of the UK transport and logistics industry. Our partner training centres in Zambia,


Uganda and Tanzania have trained a total of 6,327 drivers in categories including HGV, PSV and FLT. A further 51 trainers have been trained by Transaid to ensure lasting capacity. We have also embarked on some new driver


training projects over this 12-month period, including in Ethiopia and Sierra Leone. In both cases, we were able to utilise the skills of African trainers, all of whom had received capacity building from our corporate partners over the years.


Motorcycles With motorcycle use on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa, Transaid has continued to research into furthering the understanding of their benefits and drawbacks. Following last year’s research into their role in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda,


October 2020


this year the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was added. Transaid held a workshop in October 2019


with key stakeholders to highlight the research findings and a policy brief was developed and disseminated. It is Transaid’s ambition to return to DRC to implement a pilot initiative in the near future.


Access to health Limited availability of emergency transport in rural areas continues to be a constraint to accessing healthcare for rural communities, something Transaid is working to change through its Emergency Transport Schemes (ETS) in Madagascar and Zambia. In Zambia, Transaid’s MAM@Scale programme


continues to build upon the successes of its pilot, MAMaZ Against Malaria (MAM). We have scaled up this important initiative to five districts, reaching a population of up to 300,000, far


exceeding the original target. The training of community health volunteers and health centre personnel continues and as a result of this programme, RAS (rectal artesunate suppositories, a key component of this programme) are now being routinely ordered by the Ministry of Health. The momentum behind MAM@Scale is


building towards national scale up, with significant support from the transport and logistics sector to reach a fifth district and unlocking additional funds, as well as USAID helping to scale up this initiative even further. This year we also conducted reviews of our


Nigeria Adamawa ETS and our Uganda ETS, which both closed several years back. The aim was to understand to what degree ETS was still operating and what lessons could be learned. During both reviews beneficiaries were interviewed, confirming that ETS in both countries is still operational.


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