WMW Around the World

In July 2019, we held our first Webinar on women and transport and have since organised a monthly webinar on these topics. We have recognized through our webinars that mobility is not gender-neutral and that is it indispensable  to include the conpect in all phases of planning. This assertion is widely known and recognized, however, cities still face the challenge of how to address the issue and ground it in real processes.

Find the recordings of our last webinars in this You Tube playlist.

First Mujeres en Movimiento Seminar to Empower Women in Transport

The first Mujeres en Movimiento seminar in Santiago de Chile was the first step in creating a regional network of and for women in the transport sector in Latin America. It brought together more than 60 women from 10 LA countries, who went through a selection process to be part of the event. Aim of the seminar and the network is to equip women in transport with effective soft and hard skills to transform the sector from the inside and to give more weight to a gender perspective in transport.

First Mujeres en Movimiento seminar in Santiago de Chile

Women Mobilize Women goes local

The Women Mobilize Women Conference Leipzig was a place of exchange and inspiration for the organizers of the Easten Africa Women in Transportation (EAWIT) conference. As both conferences were aligned in their objectives of empowering women in the transport sector, EAWIT adopted the slogan Women Mobilize Women goes local. The EAWIT conference which took place on 22nd and 23rd of November 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya, was a step in creating a regional network of and for women in the transport sector in Eastern Africa.

About the Eastern Africa Women in Transportation Conference

The first conference on Women in Transport in Eastern Africa focused on the empowerment of women in the informal matatu industry and was organized by the Kenyan women-led Flone Initiative, which has been working on the issue for the last years. By providing a stage to drivers and conductors from the Kenyan Matatu industry, Dala Dalas in Tanzania and other informal transport operators from Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia, the conference offered a diversity of views from women on the ground. Users with disabilities were also given the opportunity to share their experience of daily commuting. A theater play performed by Matatu workers was an additional thought-provoking and entertaining element to gain insights into the sector. The conference was organized with the support of TUMI and other international and local organizations. Please visit the conference website to find more detailed information.