Women in the transportation sector are largely under-represented worldwide. GAPTE (the Greater Accra Passenger Transport Executive), GIZ (the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit on behalf of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)) and Scania West Africa Ltd., have developed a successful women’s bus driver training programme, that has managed to attract more female bus drivers. This has helped to even out the gender imbalance and improved female empowerment in the transport sector. But also, since female drivers are safer drivers, drive more defensively, and are less aggressive in traffic, the lady drivers also means safer, better and more attractive public transport in Accra. This session will describe the planning, execution and results of this very successful training project as no one believed it was possible in Ghana
