Words to Action: How to Build Resilient Sustainable Mobility
Date & Time
February 4th, 2021
Event Info
The high-level technical session hosted under the Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) Initiative will discuss transport systems' resilience to risks and threats. It will start with a presentation of the diagnostic and the upgraded GRA for the transport system's resilience to risks --including the COVID-19 crisis and climate change - and demonstrate their application in South Africa. It will then deep-dive on three topics that SuM4all worked on over 2020 and demonstrate the policy implications for action in countries. This session will build on last year's conversation from #TTDC20, which introduced the GRA and update on progress achieved with that policy tool.
Objective
- Brief on the new evidence-based diagnostic and resilient-inclusive GRA policy tools (GRA 2.0)
- Report on progress achieved with their piloting in a country context;
- Discuss three specific policy areas in the GRA 2.0 (public-private data sharing, e-mobility, and transport-energy nexus)
Watch the full session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G_0fxR8fb4
Agenda
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Moderator: Moyo Thoko, Associate Dean for Communications and Public Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School |
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Session 1 – Opening and Setting the Tone |
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11:30 – 11:40 |
Welcome and session overview (Moderator) Developing a Data-informed Approach to Policy Decisions on Transport (Dr. Nancy Vandycke, Program Manager) |
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Session 2 – Presentation of the new Diagnostic and resilient-inclusive “GRA” tools |
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11:40– 11:55 |
Evidence-based Diagnostic Tool (Gurpreet Singh Sehmi, SuM4All, World Bank) Resilient-inclusive GRA Policy Tool (Dr. José Viegas, Former Secretary-General, International Transport Forum) |
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11:55 – 12:00 |
Questions from the audience about the GRA 2.0 tool |
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Session 3 – Panel discussion and deep-diving on 3 cross-cutting topics |
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12:00 – 12:20 |
Live Q and A with three transport experts Moderator will engage the three Working Leads in a discussion on how their work fit into the GRA 2.0 and provide actionable policy guidance in thee topical areas. All the speakers will have the opportunity to address questions or comments from the audience. SPEAKERS
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12:20 – 12:27 |
Questions from the audience for the panelists |
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12:27 – 12:30 |
Session 4 – What’s Next? Wrap up and close (Moderator) |