Youth engagement and skills acquisition within Africa's transport sector: promoting a gender agenda towards transitions into meaningful work

非洲运输部门的青年参与和技能获取：促进性别议程以过渡到有意义的工作

• 批准号: ES/S005099/1
• 负责人: Gina Porter
• 金额: $ 99.37万
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS005099%2F1
• 关键词: Youth; engagement; skills; acquisition; within

Acknowledging the importance of mobilising Africa's young women into the labour-force, this research addresses the specific impediments presented by a highly gendered transport and travel arena and the implications this has for girls' and women's current/future access to meaningful work. Women of all ages are discriminated against, both with regard to access and use of transport (which affects their access to skills acquisition and employment across all sectors) and with reference to their employment within the transport sector itself. Relevant skills acquisition at an early age, for safely navigating transport and more equitably seeking employment is essential if they are to break through such barriers. We aim to understand and address these challenges through in-depth participatory research with young women of low socio-economic status in peripheral locations of Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia (one city-region per country), including piloting of skills-based interventions. The research has three, interlinked strands: a)The User Strand comprises research into improving young women's use of transport to access training programmes and employment, built around the following questions: -What are the economic, social and infrastructural determinants of the transport ecology in which young women are located and how does it impact on their transport experiences and behaviours?-How is young women's physical access to meaningful work and associated skills building shaped by their travel potential and access to transport (i.e. especially travel safety and security for women resident in low income areas)? -What key skills do young women need if they are to travel safely to work and training opportunities (whether as pedestrians, as cyclists, or when negotiating public transport)? -How can appropriate safe travel skills training be provided? -What wider interventions are needed to support a safe travel skills programme [e.g. from government, transport unions, NGOs, private sector] i.e. with reference to the multiple layers of political, economic and socio-cultural decision-making processes?b)The Employment Strand comprises research into improving women's access to skills (e.g. commercial driving, vehicle repair/ maintenance) to enable them to obtain more meaningful employment within the transport sector, built around the following questions: - How have historical, social, political and economic legacies of planning and policy processes impacted on opportunities for women's employment in the transport sector? -How can young women's aspirations to work in this sector be expanded and enhanced? -What do young women perceive as the main barriers to skills acquisition and subsequent employment in the sector? -What skills training can be provided to enable young women to play a more prominent role in the sector? -What wider interventions are needed to support training programmes to improve women's employment in this sector [e.g. from government, unions, NGOs, the private sector]c)The Action Research Strand builds on User and Employment Strand findings. It will pilot transport-related skills training for young women, to improve their access to employment [both directly, through employment in the transport sector and indirectly, through travel safety skills to enable them to travel to diverse employment opportunities]. Ihere will be small pilot action research projects in each country: -One to assist women build skills as transport users [and thus access diverse employment opportunities within and beyond the transport sector] -Up to 3 to assist women build skills towards employment in the transport sector.Intensive monitoring and evaluation of this strand throughout its life will ensure key lessons are learned. Through this work we will produce gender-sensitive transport/travel skills guidance for govt, private sector, NGOs + academia at local, national + international levels.

这项研究认识到动员非洲年轻女性加入劳动力队伍的重要性，解决了高度性别化的交通和旅行领域带来的具体障碍，以及这对女孩和妇女当前/未来获得有意义的工作的影响。所有年龄段的妇女都受到歧视，无论是在获得和使用交通方面（这影响了她们在所有部门获得技能和就业的机会），还是在交通部门本身的就业方面。如果他们想突破这些障碍，那么在很小的时候就获得相关技能，以安全地驾驶交通和更公平地寻找就业是至关重要的。我们的目标是通过对尼日利亚、南非和突尼斯周边地区社会经济地位较低的年轻女性（每个国家一个城市地区）进行深入的参与性研究，包括试点基于技能的干预措施，了解并应对这些挑战。该研究分为三个相互关联的部分： a) 用户链包括关于改善年轻女性使用交通来获得培训计划和就业的研究，围绕以下问题： - 年轻女性所处的交通生态的经济、社会和基础设施决定因素是什么？它如何影响她们的交通体验和行为？ （即特别是低收入地区女性居民的旅行安全和保障）？ -如果年轻女性想要安全地去工作和接受培训（无论是作为行人、骑自行车还是在乘坐公共交通时），她们需要哪些关键技能？ -如何提供适当的安全出行技能培训？ - 需要采取哪些更广泛的干预措施来支持安全旅行技能计划[例如[来自政府、运输工会、非政府组织、私营部门]，即涉及政治、经济和社会文化决策过程的多个层面？b)就业领域包括关于改善妇女获得技能（例如商业驾驶、车辆维修/保养）的研究，使她们能够在运输部门获得更有意义的就业，围绕以下问题： - 规划和政策过程的历史、社会、政治和经济遗产如何影响 女性在运输部门的就业机会？ -如何扩大和增强年轻女性在这一领域工作的愿望？ - 年轻女性认为获得技能和随后在该行业就业的主要障碍是什么？ - 可以提供哪些技能培训来使年轻女性在该行业发挥更突出的作用？ - 需要采取哪些更广泛的干预措施来支持培训计划，以改善该部门的妇女就业[例如来自政府、工会、非政府组织、私营部门]c) 行动研究分支以用户和就业分支的调查结果为基础。它将试点针对年轻女性的交通相关技能培训，以改善她们的就业机会[直接通过在交通部门就业，以及间接通过旅行安全技能使她们能够获得多样化的就业机会]。我将在每个国家开展小型试点行动研究项目： - 一个项目旨在帮助妇女培养作为交通使用者的技能[从而获得运输部门内外的多样化就业机会] - 最多 3 个项目旨在帮助妇女培养在交通部门就业的技能。在这一领域的整个生命周期中进行密集监测和评估将确保汲取重要经验教训。通过这项工作，我们将为地方、国家和国际层面的政府、私营部门、非政府组织和学术界提供性别敏感的交通/旅行技能指南。

项目成果

School Journey as a Third Place - Theories, Methods and Experiences Around The World

第三地学校之旅——世界各地的理论、方法和经验

• DOI: 10.2307/jj.766973.6
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Dungey C

Women, Work and Transport

妇女、工作和交通

• DOI: 10.1108/s2044-994120220000016005
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Porter G

Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities

日常出行实践和护理道德：三个非洲城市新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 时期年轻女性对社会责任的反思

• DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2039561
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Mobilities
• 影响因子: 2.8
• 作者: Porter G

The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis

非洲运输部门女工的生活经历：阿布贾、开普敦和突尼斯的反思

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103695
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Transport Geography
• 影响因子: 6.1
• 作者: Porter G

Dangers in the third place: Walking, public transport and the experiences of young girls in Cape Town and Abuja

第三位的危险：步行、公共交通以及开普敦和阿布贾年轻女孩的经历

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Theories, Methods and Experiences Around The World
• 作者: Dungey C.E.