Check out the Gender/Equity Cooperative Forum	And the Special Edition of World Transport
Gender and Transport: Dgroups homepage Women suffer in many ways from the transport arrangements that exist in most poor parts of the world, and not least in rural areas where women and girls are required to perform many burdensome and health-threatening tasks. But public policy and investments rarely take this into account. The Gatnet program was created in an attempt to do something about this. It presently brings together some 80 field workers and supporting groups in an open collaborative run entirely by volunteers.	About Gatnet.net A working e-toolset and extension for the Dgroups Listserv: a community of practice that began with a program on "Mainstreaming Gender into the World Bank's Transport Sector". Gatnet.net has been created under The Commons to add functionality, extend outreach, and be easy to use, and at the same time accessible from lower speed dial-up links. Open to all those interested in issues relating to improving mobility and access for poor women and men in developing countries.
The Gatnet Idea Factory Direct access to the more than one thousand references and messages that Gatnet members have exchanged over the last eighteen months. The Gatnet "Idea Factory" is most conveniently accessed through this site. (Messages can be sorted by date, author or topic to facilitate access.)	The Gender, Equity, Transport Forum Gatnet's cooperative blog adds an additional dimension of communications and exchange to our international collaboration and work. It offers a higher degree of exposure of ideas (see it in Google) than the Idea Factory, which is basically an internal work pad. Check it out. Get involved! It's yours!
Resources and References An in-process library of print and other resources for those seeking further background and supporting information on our topic. Also to be extended to provide one click access to useful graphics, video and voice materials.	World Bank Transport Strategies Review An intense cooperative effort by the members of the group to guide the World Bank and assure appropriate coverage of gender issues and perspectives for the World Bank's Transport Sector Board Strategy, covering the period 2007-2015.
Coming Events A calendar of coming events which is maintained by the group and intended to provide coverage of conferences, meetings and other keys events involving the gender, equity and transport agenda.	World Gender/Transport News The internet gives unprecedented opportunities to stay abreast of latest gender/transport news world wide. This handy tool provides one click overviews of latest news, updated by Google on a real time basis.
World Transport Policy & Practice The Journal was founded in 1995 to provide scholars, researchers, policy makers and ordinary smart people concerned with the marked un-sustainability in most places, of our current transport arrangements in most places. with a high-quality, practically-oriented, independent medium for the presentation of original and creative ideas in world transport. (The editors of the Journal are currently working with a Gatnet team to produce a series of three Special Issues in a Gender, Equity and Transport series, starting in Summer 2006.)	The Commons Pioneering new concepts for activists, community groups, entrepreneurs and business; increasing the uncomfort zone for hesitant administrators and politicians; and through our long term world wide collaborative efforts, energy and personal choices, placing them and ourselves firmly on the path to a more sustainable and more just world. The Commons currently supports more than twenty focus groups and projects, all invovling various aspects of the sustainabilty agenda in daily lives.
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