Arrived in Maputo

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On June 20th Joaquin came back to Maputo thanks to the Focus on the Positive award won in May. He will stay there for a few months to undertake field work and create a useful map of collective transport.

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We have started to collaborate with RUth, the local association for sustainable mobility in Maputo. The aim is to strengthen our network and to build links with local stakeholders.  In addition, Ruth has asked us to help organise a conference about sustainable mobility in developing countries, planned to be held in September.

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There is a lot of work to be done. We hope we will have enough time.

Focus On The Positive

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Focus_on_the_PositiveOn May 13th we presented our project at a Focus On The Positive event organised by the UCL Public and Cultural Engagement unit. We had to give a 5 minutes pitch to convince the audience to vote for our chapas project. We won the audience’s heart and were awarded 2000 pounds.

With these 2000 pounds we plan to spend two months in Maputo and finish the creation of a collective transport map.

Pitch Focus on the Positive Chapas Team

 

 

What’s Chapas Project?

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Chapas is the way how the people of Mozambique call a collective vans and minibuses managed by private operators, what is the primary means of transport in the country.chapas_maputo

The project began on august of 2013 with the purpose of making a Map Chapas of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, on the way to improve the collective transport.

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map evolution

Over time, the idea and the team has grown. In this moment, we are trying to turn it into a research about the roll of informal transport in a desirable context of sustainable mobility in the emerging cities.

The Map is still a aim, but right now is already a research method.

 

 

 

 

Chapas Team

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The core of Chapas Team is formed by 4 people. Also, there are two contributors and 3 institutions involved and lot of friends giving support.

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We are Clemence, Adriana, Daniel and Joaquín. All of us working around the sustainable mobility in Europe and in Development Countries.

Three of us work in University College of London, inside of Center of Transport Studies and of Bartlett. Two of us are partners of Goteo, cooperative about Bicycle and Sustaiable Mobility in Madrid. One of us are currently make a collaboration in Maputo with “Rede Uthende para a Advocacia e Lobby Social (RUth)“, mozambican civil association who are working in sustainable mobility in the capital.

The professors Peter Jones and Julio Davila from UCL are supporting us in the research conversion.