Understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on women in transport in Nairobi

Flone Initiative is a pan-African women-led non-profit organization working towards the realization of safe, accessible, inclusive and sustainable public transportation, with particular focus on women and vulnerable groups. Flone generates knowledge, convenes inclusive dialogues, supports women in transportation, and builds capacity of key stakeholders to contribute to the realization of an equitable and socially just mass transportation ecosystem in Africa. Flone conducted a random sampling of 30 out of the 70 Women in Transport members in Nairobi to establish how they had been affected by COVID-19 and the measures the government has put in place. After this, Flone met with the Women in Transport elected officials to develop an agenda of interventions to meet the needs identified by the group.