IFRTD Strategy

The transport and development sector is changing - broad initiatives such as the Millennium Development Goals are shaping the international context whilst issues such as safety, gender, trade and urban transport are rising up the agenda. Increasingly transport is seen as a cross-cutting issue with its significance being recognised across a variety of sectors such as energy, economics and the environment. In the five years since IFRTD developed its last strategy it is not just the external environment that has changed, but the network itself. Membership has tripled, National Forum Groups (NFGs) and Communities of Practice have been introduced and expanded, regional networks have taken on their own identity and networked research programmes have been established as a successful approach to bridging research, policy and implementation.

It is in this context that IFRTD endorsed its 2007-2011 strategy. The Strategy is a clear statement of what the Forum wants to achieve, and how we hope to achieve it. At the very start is our new vision: "poor and vulnerable communities in developing countries are able to improve their lives through enhanced mobility, access and economic opportunity". In working to achieve this vision the six sections of the strategy: What we stand for; What we do; Who we are; How we organise; How we generate resources; and How we assess our work, set out key priorities that will guide the Forum's work over the next five years.