Easy Matatu

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Key Facts Completed 1000+ trips Served 2500+ commuters Trained 50+ minibus drivers Easy Matatu is reforming the existing, informal minibus-taxis (matatu) industry by building a community of trusted matatu drivers and a fleet of clean and safe vehicles to provide first-rate transportation to the public. Piloting in Kampala, Uganda, commuters can pre-book seats on scheduled…

How Shell Foundation is responding to the Covid-19 crisis

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As the world adapts to a different operating environment caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, at Shell Foundation we have been working to formalise our response strategy to help our portfolio of social enterprises and institutions continue delivering energy and transport solutions to low-income consumers in Africa and Asia, and that the sector response is aligned…

Tugende continues to support entrepreneurial community through Covid-19

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In Uganda, Covid-19 restrictions have left many entrepreneurs in the informal sector struggling to take care of their families and cover basic living costs. SF partner Tugende provides asset financing, training, life and health insurance, and active business support to help MSMEs own their economic future. Tugende’s core product is a financing package for local motorbike taxi…

Call for sustainable urban mobility start-ups in Kenya and Uganda

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SF is supporting the African Mobility Initiative (AMI) to find start-ups and innovations addressing sustainable mobility in the informal transport sector in Kenya and Uganda. Through its Africa Transformative Mobility Accelerator (ATMA), and also supported by the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) – with whom SF entered into a  Memorandum of Understanding last month to…

Shell Foundation and TUMI sign Mobility MoU

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Shell Foundation and TUMI, the government-led funding initiative focused on sustainable mobility, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to advance the awareness and activity around sustainable transport. The MoU was signed at the Transforming Transportation conference in DC and commits both organisations to collaborating over work on advocacy, pipeline development and impact measurement in…

Tech Startups Offer New Answers to African Transport Woes. How Can Cities Capitalize?

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This blog originally appeared on the CityFix website. See the full study report The fundamentals of urban mobility are changing rapidly. Apps like Uber and Lyft are becoming ubiquitous around the world and new modes like electric and shared bicycles and scooters are on the rise. The conversation is increasingly trending toward mobility as a…

World Resources Institute launches Energy Access Explorer

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Today, the World Resources Institute (WRI) – an SF strategic partner since 2002 – launched Energy Access Explorer, a new open-source platform, leverages satellite imagery combined with 20 local data sets to visualise energy supply and demand in East Africa. More than 800 million people around the world lack reliable electricity; nearly 600 million of them…

Ashden Awards 2019 recognises two Shell Foundation Partners

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SF partners Sistema.bio and SMV Green have both been recognised by the prestigious Ashden Awards 2019. Sistema.bio was presented with the Clean Cooking Award for its work to bring clean biogas to farmers in Latin America, Africa and India.  Its innovative and affordable biogas system turns animal waste into clean and odourless cooking fuel whilst producing…

From vulnerability to empowerment: how women in India are driving change through unconventional occupations

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Shell Foundation’s India Business Analyst Tanya Kothari gives her personal point of view, using her experience of SF’s work in the  area of increasing gender inclusion in the mobility value chain. The article, co-authored with Aishwarya Raman, Head of Research at the Ola Mobility Institute, discusses how India should embark on a journey to better the balance of…

Where Is My Transport (WIMT)

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Key Facts Mapped 250,000+ km of public transport routes in 22 cities globally Platform data is impacting over +10M commuters daily Launched first B2C product, Rumbo, in Mexico City end 202; the application has reached over 10,000 users and delivered over 750,000 real-time network alerts. Rumbo subsequently launched in Lima, Peru in June 2021  WhereIsMyTransport…