Training Hub “Transportation for Green Growth”

Project Summary:

Sustainable transport practices seek to avoid investment “lock-in” in high energy-use, high-pollution transport modes. To promote adoption of low-emission transport technologies at a time of rapid urbanization, the KGGTF’s two-year USD $500,000 program spans the transport, trade, and energy sectors. In cooperation with KOTI and the MoLIT, the program is developing and delivering a curriculum to train governments to build green transport systems. The program will create seven training sessions for stakeholders in client countries, while policy makers and executives will learn to apply the program’s sector analytical work. The training includes learning to use tools to evaluate technology futures, mitigate risk, and quantify the value of reduced environmental damage, including reduced GHG emissions, health costs, and accidents. Green transport also reduces the social costs of transport, with far-reaching benefits to poor households in developing countries, including increased mobility and improved access to jobs, markets, and public health and education. Participants will also learn how incentives can open fiscal space to finance transition to a green economy.  

List of Activities:

• Presenting and discussing a modern, comprehensive ex ante evaluation methodology for sustainable transport
• Disseminating a new evaluation method for transport projects that includes external benefits of transport (e.g. trade and agglomeration economies). Furthermore, such an approach may also lead to the reduction of social costs of transport (e.g. congestion, local air pollution, road safety risks and GHG emission, valued at an appropriate shadow price)
• Encouraging the interest of other development agencies for a new approach to evaluation in transport in order to work towards a joint approach that helps to evaluate the work of the MDB’s in achieving the Rio+20 Voluntary Commitment

Outcomes:

Output 1:

• Curriculum development – 5 Training modules developed

Output 2:

• Transport for Green Growth Training - 350 high level decision makers trained

Output 3:

• Monitoring of take up in client countries - 3 stock taking seminars with focus on SAR and AFR

Outcomes:

The training is to be implemented in client countries of MDBs and participating client countries to lay the basis for a systematic implementation of green growth strategic concepts for all ex-ante policy making in the countries involved. This is expected to systematically change the net benefit reporting of projects and policies and will lead to a change in the portfolio of projects and policies in the sense of the green growth strategy.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

The training hub was set up jointly with the Korea Transport Research Institute (KOTI), with a focus on improving project planning by introducing and disseminating new methodologies. The training contents are built on research done by KOTI on transport user demand across urban transport modes and road accidents in Korea, while the curriculum makes use of KOTI studies on transport sector growth, motorization and emissions.