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Opening and Welcome   Hybrid 10 minutes (2x5 minutes) 

• Mustapha Benmaamar, Program Manager, SSATP

• Benjamin de la Peña, chair, Global Network for Popular Transportation; CEO, Shared-Use Mobility Center

SESSION ONE: ON PRACTICE

Weaving Networks

What we’re all learning from efforts to connect formal/ institutional transportation and paratransit/ popular transportation

Moderator: Andrea San Gil, Executive Director, Global Network for Popular Transportation

SESSION GOALS:

• Learn from the successes and failures of cities in building sustainable transportation by integrating paratransit

• Understand that paratransit/ popular transportation is essential public service

• Learn from the innovations policy and operations that have been successful 

• ▼ Lessons from Bogota’s SITP | Felipe Ramirez, Urban Mobility Director, World Resources Institute

• ▼ Lessons from fleet renewal in Sub-Saharan Africa | Fatima Arroyo-Arroyo, Infrastructure Program Leader, The World Bank

• ▼ Lessons learned from South East Asia (by video) | Dr. Apiwat Ratanawaraha, Associate Director, Chulalongkorn University Transportation Institute 

• ▼ Lessons from Lagos | Abimbola Akinajo, Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority

SESSION TWO ON KNOWLEDGE AND TOOLS  

Street Smarts World Cafe

What are we learning about paratransit/ popular transportation ecosystems?

Moderator: Anjali Mahendra, Dir. of Global Research, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

SESSION GOALS:

• Understand current efforts to build a comprehensive, data-backed case for popular transportation, supporting evidence-based policies and investment.

• Showcase new tools to support policies for data and decarbonization

Framing Presentations

• ▼ Political Economy of Paratransit | Ana Waksberg Guerrini, Global  Co-Lead for Urban Mobility, World Bank

• ▼ Summary of Key Insights from PRISM | Jacqueline Klopp, Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Columbia Climate School; Principal Investigator, PRISM

• ▼ Unlocking Better Work Conditions through Labor Impact Assessments | Alana Dave, Director of Urban Transport, International Transport Workers’ Federation

WORLD CAFE (Presentations when available)

• Towards Improved Business Models for (Paratransit) Bus Stations in African Cities - Simon Saddier, SSATP

• ▼ NDC Template for Popular Transportation - Mohamed Hegazy, TfC

• ▼ Changing the Narratives on the Role of 2W & 3W in Global South - Andrea San Gil, GNPT

• ▼ The Transport Data Commons Initiative - Holger Dalkmann, VREF

• ▼ The Political Economy of EV Transitions - Gaurav Mittal, Oxford TSU

• ▼ Motorcycle-taxi data and solutions for the sector - Tom Courtright, Lubyanza

• The Atlas of Popular Transport - Sarah Williams, Civic Data Lab and LCAU, MIT

• Missing Mobilities: The Informal Transport Gaps in Climate Adaptation - Thet Hein Tun, WRI and Jackie Klopp, PRISM

• Diving into the Economic Model of Paratransit as a Crucial Step Towards Professionalization: the Case of Antananarivo Minibuses - Jean-Jacques Helluin, Executive Manager, CODATU

• Commercially used motorcycles ASA/platform - Dipan Bose, Senior Transport Specialist, Global Road Safety Facility, The World Bank

• Impacts of Introducing Public Transportation in Rapidly Growing Cities: Example from Lagos - Alice Duhaut, Economist, Development Impact, The World Bank

• ▼ How BasiGo made Electric Buses the Preferred Option for Private bus owners in Africa - Jit Bhattacharya, Co-Founder and CEO, BasiGo

SESSION THREE: ON RESOURCES

Keys and Bridges Roundtable

How do we create new mechanisms and unlock investments for paratransit/ popular transport micro- and small-enterprises?

Moderators:

Maruxa Cardama, Secretary General, Partnership for Sustainable Low-Carbon Transport

Holger Dalkmann, CEO and Founder, Sustain 2030, Senior Advisor to VREF and to HVT/DFID

SESSION GOALS:

• Identify the bottlenecks MDBs and IFIs need to unlock to bring accessible, stable funding that helps popular transport MSMEs to thrive and local/national governments to innovate

• Hear from the lessons of global efforts to finance SMEs

• Gather insights and inputs for a possible Call-to-Action for paratransit / popular transportation

Welcome Remarks

• Binyam Reja, Global Practice Manager, The World Bank

Framing Presentations

• ▼ Financing Urban Mobility: the Place of Paratransit, Simon Saddier, Urban Mobility Pillar Lead, SSATP

• ▼ Lessons and Innovations in SME Finance Infrastructure: A Global Perspective - Matthew Saal, Digital Financial Services, International Finance Corporation