Over the last five years, the Sustainable Mobility for All Partnership has reshaped and influenced transport and mobility discussions globally and in countries, generating and applying, new knowledge on transport and mobility issues.
1. Global Advocacy and Strategic Outreach
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Influencing global debates on Sustainable Mobility: The Partnership’s commitment has been helping countries reduce their transport-related carbon emissions —the green goal—while continuing to progress on universal access, safety, and efficiency. This is the message the partnership conveyed in high-profile events and international conferences.
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Shaping global agendas: With the discussion paper “Electromobility in the Global South: An Equitable Transition Toward Road Passenger Transport Decarbonization,” the Partnership helped to rebalance the debate on e-mobility at COP26 in 2021, by elevating the perspective of countries in the Global South.
The UNFCCC Global Climate Action Group acknowledged SuM4All as a champion for shifting towards more environmentally friendly lower-carbon modes of transportSuM4All joined by several others who coalesced under the UNFCCC Global Climate Action Group to accelerate action on climate change in 2021.
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Website, blogs, newsletters, and annual reports: Members, experts, and the Secretariat published more than 65 blogs and articles on the World Bank Group’s Transport for Development website platform and syndicated on the SuM4All website The Partnership issued 48 monthly Newsletters with over 5,000 subscribers and featured stories on the SuM4All-dedicated website, which continues to attract more than 100,000 readers annually. The Partnership published 4 annual reports detailing the activities and achievements of the program, which were reviewed and endorsed by the SuM4All Steering Committee.
2. Country Action and Technical Assistance
The Partnership piloted the application of this unique set of tools it had developed in South Africa. The findings will be summarized in the following three papers:
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South Africa Mobility Report: Tracking Sector Performances: presents a comprehensive diagnostic of South Africa’s transport system, using the Global Tracking Framework for Transport (GTF) to highlight sustainability gaps and rank transport issues (covering all modes of transportation, passenger and freight, infrastructure, and services).
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South Africa’s roadmap of action toward sustainable mobility: identifies the top 30 most impactful actions (policies and investments) to improve the sustainability of South Africa’s transport system and contribute to the attainment of the SDGs, using the Catalogue of Policy Measures and Selection algorithm.
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Sustainable Mobility in South Africa: Gender and Mobility Assessment and Roadmap for Action: presents a deep dive assessment of gender and mobility in South Africa.
World Bank’s Open Learning Campus (OLC) Course: A New Approach for Improved Public Decision Making in Transport: Technical support in South Africa spurred the demand for capacity building by other countries. In direct response, the Partnership delivered the first edition of a four-week blended interactive course geared toward public decision-makers in transport in 2021. Participants learned how to apply tools such as the Global Tracking Framework for Transport (GTF).
3. Thought Leadership
To take effective action, countries must know where they need to be on sustainable mobility, and where they stand. This required:
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Collecting and assessing data, developing an integrated data and indicator platform for transport, and structuring the data and indicators around a coherent framework. This led to the development of the Global Tracking Framework for Transport (GTF).
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Tracking and analyzing country performances on sustainable mobility. Using the GTF, the partners produced the Global Mobility Report (GMR) 2017 to benchmark countries’ transport system performances.
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Developing a new indicator to rank countries globally for sustainable mobility. The Global Sustainable Mobility Index (GSMI) score measures the extent to which the mobility system of a given country is sustainable.