John Mark Mwanika is a Programs Officer at Amalgamated Transport and General Workers’ Union (ATGWU-Uganda). John Mark has been instrumental in designing strategies of organising informal transport workers that has seen the drastic growth of ATGWU’s membership from less than 5,000 in 2012 to over 100,000 by the end of 2018. John Mark is key member of the team working on strategies of building union influence and campaigning in public transport including Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Nairobi, Kenya, Dakar, Senegal, Accra in Ghana and Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire under the ITF Our Public Transport (OPT) Program
John Mark is a holder of a Master in Development Studies, Bachelor of Social Science and a Diploma in Education. He is the current Chair of the ITF Urban Transport Committee and a Co-Chair of ITF Sustainable Transport Working Group
Sessions
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June 05: Informal transport: Everything you need to know and never dared to ask
Informal Transport: Everything you need to know
ITF Strategy of undertaking participatory research to increase the understanding of the informal transport industry
