the example of Peru's rural roads program
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Promising approaches to engendering development
- Magazine Year
- 2004
- Thesaurus
- mobiliteit, verkeer, voorzieningen, platteland, Peru
- Description
- Rural transport projects that ignore the transport needs of segments of the target population run the risk of achieving suboptimal development impacts. Where women’s and girls' transport needs and constraints are ignored, for example, girls' school enrolments may remain low, women may be cut off from productive economic activities, and family members may be unable to access health care and other basic services. Rural women are among the groups whose transport needs and constraints are most likely to be excluded. Yet in most rural communities, women as much as men have transport needs associated with economic activity, schooling, access to health services and other activities important for community development and household well-being.