Green, Fair and Dignified Jobs

Topic

Most workers in the transport sector are not protected by social insurance, do not earn decent wages, or work in informal, precarious and unsafe environments rife with gender-based discrimination. Disruptions and new business models in the transport sector are shaking up the industry with new career paths, required skills and business models.

What it’s all about:

Guarantee dignified jobs in safe working environments that offer stable wages and the rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
Create new green jobs and opportunities for value creation, businesses, and employment in the Global South.

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Resources

Publications

Making the Economic Case for Cycling
Published by: ITDP
Promoting investment in cycling and related infrastructure shifts people from fossil-fuel intensive transport modes, builds both formal and informal economies, and increases access to new job and economic opportunities.

Quick Guide to Bus Sector Modernization
Published by: UN-Habitat
This quick guide shows how some cities have created high-quality bus services at affordable prices. A number of cities have demonstrated how a good public transport system can be developed by consolidating existing public transport service providers and by ensuring clear and transparent regulatory and oversight arrangements between public authorities and public transport service providers.

“The Green Jobs Advantage: How Climate-friendly Investments Are Better Job Creators”
Published by: WRI
This paper explores how to promote good jobs that have fair wages, job security, opportunities for career growth, safe working conditions, and are accessible for all.

Climate Resilient Transport: A policy guide
Published by: IMC
Resilient transport networks that can withstand the impacts of weather and climate change are crucial in order to sustain the social and economic needs of communities – a particular challenge for developing countries. This policy guide provides background and context on the problem and practical steps to develop, prepare and implement adaptation plans for transport resilience to climate change.

A 250k gap? Building capacity for the global mobility transition
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
This paper identifies the future capacity building needs and initiates the reflection on how improvements in education and capacity building programs can enable a pathway towards sustainable mobility for all.

iNUA #7: Mobility-as-a-Service
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Let’s look at Mobility as a Service (MaaS), the integration of various forms of transport services into a single mobility service accessible on demand. Creating a MaaS ecosystem means integrating reliable, safe, and accessible mobility services.

Sustainable Urban Freight in Asian Cities
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
This sourcebook module assists policy makers in developing Asian countries, particularly those involved at the urban level, move towards making the urban freight sector more sustainable and creating green, dignified and fair jobs in the transport sector. Also: an overview of the measures and techniques in the urban freight sector globally.

Connected Urban Growth: Public-Private Collaborations for Transforming Urban Mobility
Published by: WRI
New mobility services could improve the lives of all urban inhabitants. This first ever global survey finds that applying three types of new mobility services – electric, on-demand minibuses, subsidized shared rides, and trip-planning & ticketing apps – can make public transport more affordable, accessible and sustainable, if integrated properly.

Just Transition and Skill Development in the Electric Vehicle Industry
Published by: WRI
Discussions on the impact of the ongoing EV transition on the workforce of the automotive and transport industries and deliberations on ways to ensure a just transition and develop the skills of the workforce.

Proveeduría de energía para vehículos eléctricos en Colombia
Published by: Changing Transport/GIZ
Electromobility creates a new job market, which could help women to achieve major representation in the transport sector.

A just Transition for Urban Transport Workers
Published by: ITF
Case studies on just transition from workers’ perspectives in countries of the Global South. Includes a 10-point Just Transition framework for workers in urban transport.

Addressing Climate Change and Improving Access to Opportunities
Published by: SLOCAT
Climate action in the transport sector can simultaneously address key transport needs for people, including providing access to opportunities such as jobs, education and services that enable people to thrive and economies to grow.

Podcast

“Building Resilient Economies Around Cycling” Twitter Space Conversation
Published by: ITDP
This hour-long Twitter Space live conversation builds on ITDP’s Economic Case for Cycling research and features speakers from partners like ECF, TransportationAlternatives, and more discussing means for promoting cycling economies worldwide.

News Article

5 Lessons from South Africa’s Just Transition Journey
Published by: WRI
The “just transition” movement aims to reduce the negative impacts on workers and communities of transitioning to a zero-carbon economy while ensuring that benefits are fairly distributed. Over the past few years, South Africa has emerged as a pioneer in the global Just Transition movement that other countries can learn from as they embark on their own just transition efforts.

Webinar

Reforming paratransit with MobiliseYourCity’s newest catalogue of measures
Published by: MYC
Paratransit is a key source of income and means of transport for many urban dwellers in the global south. The transformation of paratransit in the Global South has the potential to both enhance the mobility access to inhabitants while improving labor conditions of transport workers, therefore, contributing to a just transition in urban mobility.

Videos

Our Jobs, Our Planet, Our Public Transport Week of Action
Published by: ITF
Week of action organized during transport day at COP26. Over 50 unions from around the world participated.

Collective Forces
Published by: Formando Rutas
The collective idea of the unions is to improve working and living conditions not only at the local level but also through international solidarity to other unions that are against bad practices done by extractive companies. It is not only to take to the streets but to organize in these structures.

TUMI Challenge Nairobi, Kenya – Start-Up Accelerator
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
As part of the TUMI Challenge in Nairobi, Kenya, two startup accelerators for local founders in the field of mobility were carried out from 2018 to 2021. In cooperation with the implementation partners, 16 startups were able to participate in a comprehensive program with coaching and mentoring and expand their network of local and international investors.

Tool

Paratransit Toolkit
Published by: MYC
Paratransit is a key source of income and means of transport for many urban dwellers in the global south. How to efficiently consider it in measure selection while planning for future urban mobility is thus a key concern for a just transition for which the Paratransit Toolkit offers ideas and solutions.