The last week we was posted in Focus on The Positive’s blog (http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/focus-on-the-positive/2014/10/22/transforming-transport-maps-for-maputo/)

They summarized the first months of our activity in Maputo from June.

The last monday I went to theatro to wath “Xapa 100 (My Love)”. Is a piece about the day to day of the Chapas and his workers and users in a humor tone.
After seen I could confirm how integrate is the Chapa in a Mozambicane culture and habits. This play collect most of the aspects I seen in a fieldwork: relationship between driver and conductor; relationship of them with the owner of the Chapa; some gender abuses; the paviments holes; the traffic jumps; the line of customers waiting; the accidents, the increase of price of petrol; etc…

You can read more in this link

What we do?

• The main thing is that we get the total complicity and support of RUth in different ways:
  • support to call, contact and meeting to all the stakeholders they know (in fact, almost all there are);
  • compromise to find the rest of the money to pay the produce the map;
  • agreement to  advice (payment) them about sustainable policies and praxis and collaborate in some of their actions:
    • “Marcha por transporte com qualidade”,
    • “Conferencia: Mobilidade em países em desenvolvimento. Experiencias en Áreas Metropolitanas” ,
    • “Petição publica por um crescimento com qualidade de vida para Maputo” (contents and design of campaign)
    • Position about the new reestructure of a few neighborhoods and the mobility implications
    • Help in their presence in FACIM, International International Economic Fair in Maputo about Mozambique with the object: “Facilitate the potential and economic sustainability in the Greater Maputo Region through a public transportation system efficient and effective”
  • Support in a new project exclusive for urban mobility call “Vivacidade”
• This perspective of more time to work, maybe 2 or 4 months more, change the schedule. Consequence: I dedicate more time to make a general overview and talk with the stakeholders and less time to fieldwork.
• I had meetings with the follow stakeholders:
  • The general coordinator of UN-Habitat in Mozambike
  • The Maputo Chapas Association. We already start the work collaboration.
  • General Director of “Transportes Públicos de Maputo”, Public Bus Company of Maputo.
  • Architecture University School and two of this main professors
  • Coordinator of Department For International Development (DFID, UK-AID) in Mozambique
  • Coordinator of Spanish Cooperation (AECID) in Mozambique
  • Livaningo, Mozambican Association for sustainable environment
  • Ideialab, Organization for entrepreneurship Lab in new technologies, thing together about a “map app”
• Others:
  • Debate and presentation: “Transportes públicos na cidade de Maputo: entre os TPM aos “My love”” (“Public Transport in Maputo, between public Bus and “My love””), research from two post-graduates of Observatorio de Medio Rural  de la Escuela Politecnica de Mondlane. Contact with this researchers.
  • Contact with the theater company who play a piece about Chapas
  • Contact with a researcher who made a paper about: “Urban mobility in Maputo metropolitan area: analysis of the management bodies of urban planning and mobility, institutional arrangements and inputs for effective articulation.” Inocêncio Nhatuguês de Mendonça .Pontidical University Catholic of Paraná-Brasil
  • Consultories companies who are design the restructure of some neighborhood.

What result we had?

• Better and extend perspective about the situation of mobility in Maputo and Mozambique.
• Agreement for produce the map with RUth and other funding organizations.
• “15%” of more information of “chapas” routes to make the map
• Funding for 2-4 months of work in Mozambique
• Made our project better known in Maputo for a lot stakeholders

What we wait for the next months?

• Finish the collect of the data about “Maputo city” routes to produce the map.
• With 4 months more, finish the production of the Map.
• Be useful for RUth to make their global posture for Sustainable Mobility of Big Maputo: “VivaCidade” project; posture about process of BRT integration; posture about the restructure of the marginal neighborhood.
• Let the agreements with some stakeholders to make a deep research about paratransit in emerging cities under a new funding.

How we spent the Focus On the Positive’s grant?
Overview:
Fly Ticket: 660 pounds
Support for researcher per month: 1200 pounds (600 x 2)
Insurance of researcher: 140 pounds

Total: 2000ł