Evolving Strategies for Designing Programme Intervention in Truckers' Halt Points

Agency : TCIF-BMGF

The study was commissioned by TCIF-BMGF in Phase - II states where National Highways 2-9 passed by. The purpose of the study was to evolve strategies to design programme interventions in 34 potential halt-points in the northern, western and eastern regions of India where TCIF-BMGF project could begin the intervention. The specific objectives were:

  • To identify the 45 topmost potential halt-points (from which 34 halt-points will be selected for project interventions) in the northern, western and eastern regions of India
  • To assess the availability and coverage of existing highway programmes in the selected halt-points, which will serve as an excellent tool for rational staffing and planning new interventions for operationalisation
  • To generate the database related to sexual networking and truckers' villages in the selected halt-points, which will serve as the base for planning interventions
  • To collect the baseline data related to the behavioural change aspects of truckers and sex workers
  • To examine the possibility of involving secondary stakeholders, such as transport companies, brokers/agents, and associations of truckers/owners, in the TCIF-BMGF project
  • The present study uses participatory techniques to collect information from primary stakeholders, such as truckers and commercial sex workers, and secondary stakeholders, like truckers' associations and trucking industries.

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