Bicycle Partnership Program

The Bicycle Partnership Program follows simultaneously 3 intervention strategies in an international collaboration context: policy influence, civil society building and direct poverty reduction.

Influencing policies stands for:

• the mobilization of citizens, politicians, professionals, and the economy, in order to get the bicycle and cycling on the political agenda;
• the introduction of laws and rules that facilitate cycling;
• the promotion of knowledge and know-how that include cycling in various policies.

Civil society building means:

• supporting of organisations promoting the interest of cycling;
• development of concepts and support of initiatives to create a market for low-cost bicycles;
• execution of research and training on cycle-inclusive planning and design of facilities.

Direct poverty reduction includes:

• removing or reducing of social and financial barriers for bicycle use;
• realization of innovative production and assembling of low-cost bicycles;
• implementation of safe bicycle routes.