Transport services and infrastructure can be enablers or deterrents for women’s empowerment. Transport-related barriers, such as availability, affordability, acceptability, physical access, safety, and...
This report summarizes the main challenges that men- and women-led companies (also referred to as traders or trade firms) and customs brokers face in undertaking cross-border trade of merchandise goods...
A human rights-based approach (HRBA) to transport can lead to inclusive and gender-responsive transportation systems as equality is a key principle of human rights. Transport, and the personal mobility...
The note is structured in eight sections, including the introduction. Section two defines the methodology. Section three describes the HRBA to development which will be used as guidance for the analysis...
This report is part of an Advisory Services and Analytics study that the World Bank undertook with funding from the Human Rights Umbrella Trust Fund. The study, the role of transport in supporting women...
This report explores two aspects of the rail transport sector - mobility, and employment--in the countries of Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina from a gender perspective. It examines issues of rail transport...
The broad objectives of this study were to identify the following: (1) mobility differences globally between women and men (and by non-binary individuals, more broadly, where possible). This objective...
This report: (i) explains economic and legal implications of current job restrictions to women for Azerbaijan, (ii) provides compelling arguments to move away from a job-title centric form of restricting...
Building and maintaining roads can have significant economic and social benefits in terms of economic growth and increased access to jobs and to a range of services citizens depend on. However, road infrastructure...
The Government of Jordan has strengthened its commitment in recent years to gender equality and women's social and economic empowerment through Jordan's Renaissance Plan 2019-2020 and more recently through...
The Government of Jordan has strengthened its commitment in recent years to gender equality and women’s social and economic empowerment through Jordan’s Renaissance Plan 2019-2020 and more recently through...
Building and maintaining roads have significant economic and social benefits in terms of increased production, lower transport costs, and increased access to markets, as well as to a range of services...