Youth Engagement and Skills Acquisition Within Africa's Transport Sector: Promoting a Gender Agenda Towards Transitions into Meaningful Work, Qualitative Data Collection, 2019-2022

Youth engagement and skills acquisition within Africa’s transport sector was a collaborative research project between Durham University, UK, the University of Sokoto, Nigeria, the South African Labour and Development Research Unit [SALDRU] at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the UK-based NGO Transaid. The project’s core data set deposited with RESHARE comprises in-depth interviews focused on daily mobility and transport, conducted by project academic staff and young unemployed women we trained as peer researchers at the outset of the study; a small number of focus group discussions conducted by academic staff; and diaries focused on daily mobility, mostly written by peer researchers during the pandemic. Anonymised data sets are provided for each of the three study cities. Note: The research team had also anticipated collecting quantitative data concerning the pilot trainings for transport users and transport workers led by Transaid. These were to have comprised baseline assessments, followed by post-intervention surveys after one month and six months to assess skills uptake among participating women. Although Transaid staff succeeded in implementing pilot training interventions in each city, in the final months of the project, COVID constraints limited recruitment numbers and the collection of baseline data amenable to statistical analysis. Collection of post-intervention data has not been possible due to COVID constraints and the requirement to end the project on 31st March 2022. Transaid’s reports on the pilot interventions will be made available on the project website: https://transportandyouthemploymentinafrica.com

本研究为聚焦非洲交通领域青年参与与技能习得的合作项目，由英国杜伦大学（Durham University）、尼日利亚索科托大学（University of Sokoto）、南非开普敦大学下属南非劳工与发展研究单元（South African Labour and Development Research Unit, SALDRU）以及英国非政府组织Transaid联合开展。存放在RESHARE的项目核心数据集包含三类内容：其一为项目学术人员与研究启动阶段受训的青年失业女性同伴研究者共同开展的、聚焦日常出行与交通的深度访谈；其二为学术人员主持的少量焦点小组讨论；其三为聚焦日常出行的日志记录，其中多数由疫情期间的同伴研究者撰写。本次研究涉及的三座城市均配套提供了匿名化数据集。注：研究团队原本计划收集由Transaid主导的面向交通使用者与交通从业者的试点培训相关定量数据，具体包括基线评估，以及干预后1个月、6个月的追踪调查，以评估参与女性的技能掌握情况。尽管Transaid工作人员已成功在各城市落地试点培训干预措施，但在项目的最后数月，新冠疫情相关限制措施导致招募人数受限，且可用于统计分析的基线数据收集工作受阻。受新冠疫情限制因素以及项目需于2022年3月31日结项的要求影响，干预后数据收集工作未能完成。Transaid关于试点干预措施的相关报告将在项目官网https://transportandyouthemploymentinafrica.com 发布。