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Consultative Workshop with Latin American Stakeholders
Tarapoto, Peru, March 12 to 16, 2007 |
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 The World Bank Central Transport Unit organized "Workshops for Performance Indicators in the Transport Sector" in Peru - the first workshop in the Latin American region. The objectives of the workshop are to (i) create awareness of new trends in transport sector data management and the processes of monitoring the sector's performance with respect to national and international development targets; (ii) identify the critical aspects of the need for reliable data in the transport sector; (iii) analyze the transport sector data presently available in relation to local, national, and regional priorities, and identify shortfalls; (iv) assess current and perceived future requirements for statistical information and key gaps.
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- Rural Road Participative Planning at Provincial Level (Spanish) (PDF 868 KB)
Instituto Vial Provincial San Martín
- Introduction to the Indicators Workshop Series (English) (PDF 21 KB)
Peter Njenga, IFRTD
- Overview of the World Bank's Transport Results Initiative (English) (PDF 554 KB)
(Spanish) (PDF 573 KB)
Peter Roberts, ETWTR, World Bank
- Integration of South America and its Road's Component at National Level
(Spanish) (PDF 387 KB)
Julio Olivo: Forum Solidaridad Peru
- Monitoring Transport Investments by Civil Society Organisations (Spanish) (PDF 1.1 MB)
Eduardo Giesen, Ciudad Viva, Chile
- Transmilenio System in Bogotá (Spanish) (PDF 1.2 MB)
Deisy Rodríguez, Transmilenio, Colombia
- Socio Economic Monitoring of the Transport Sector Programme, with emphasis on waterways (Spanish) (PDF 390 KB)
María Brooks, DANIDA, Nicaragua
- Indicators for Social-environmental Sensitisation Campaigns on Prevention of Road Transport Accidents
Jose Armando Torres, Brazil
- Gender and Transport: Indicators on Gender in Urban and Rural Areas (Spanish) (PDF 228 KB)
María Gutiérrez, IFRTD LA
- Transport Investments and National Security (Spanish) (PDF 2.9 MB)
Víctor Arévalo, IFRTD LA
- The Social Disease of Road Accidents (Spanish) (PDF 421 KB)
Hugo Fernández, ISEV, Argentina
- Basic Statistics for Indicators: Transport Satellite Sccounts (Spanish) (PDF 123 KB)
Raúl Torres, Provías Descentralizado
- Planning for Multi-sectoral Economic Infrastructure Plan (Spanish) (PDF 395 KB)
Edgar Quispe, Provías Descentralizado
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- It is very important that the language is standardised in terms of the definition of what is an indicator, how it is constructed, what it is good for, and to differentiate when data becomes an indicator and when it carries on just being data.
- Recognising the dynamics of different social groups, it is important to gather statistical as well as qualitative data, both disaggregated by gender and age, within the transport and other sectors.
- Indicators to be designed need to be relevant to the sector and its interaction with other sectors in order to measure reality in terms of sustainable transport and what the thresholds or reference values are according to the situation and context. Indicators are effective tools that support management and decision making processes.
- Indicators should help bringing practical solutions. The main goal is to improve people's living conditions through access not only to economic development, but social and environmental development.
- It should be a practice for Bank-funded transport programmes to ensure community participation since its early stages. This approach would already help learning what the local capacities are and where are the gaps in order to ensure that all stakeholders are later in a position to be involved in the monitoring process in optimal conditions.
- A special component within the budget should be included for both monitoring within the programme and monitoring by civil society.
- A pilot programme focusing on case studies could be carried out that combines existing statistic information and qualitative information. This is based on the understandings that statistical data is static at a moment and the challenge is gathering of information through a more dynamic and a sustainable process.
- Networking has given us a great potential and it is even more necessary to position the Latin American forum. To work on this issue via a virtual discussion moderated by the IFRTDLA, for example, will allow us to carry on strengthening skills and increasing the potential of members' capacities. It could also facilitate joint projects and continue the peer support.
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