This project aims to enhance the safety and mobility situation of young women and persons-with-disabilities (PWDs) in Yaoundé Cameroon, by empowering them to talk about their situation. The project looks to help them move safer on their journeys while also advocate for a more inclusive and accessible transport system.
The project will run from April 2024 to March 2024 and will gather safety and mobility challenges of 200 young women and PWDs who frequent the downtown of Yaoundé through survey, interview, focus group and enhance the capacity of young women and PWDs in road safety through training and workshop.
The team will be promoting gender inclusive transport system by assessing available transport options, high-risk location, empower youth to raise awareness of the challenges faced by young women and PWDs.
One of the goals of the project is to implement an advocacy strategy that priorities the needs of women and PWDs by involving decision-makers, stakeholders, transport operators, and media as a way to demand for implementation of the report recommendations and advocate for the consideration of women and PWDs needs into future transport projects.
