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Ensure
availability and maintenance capacity
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people can have problems obtaining and maintaining local transport
solutions. There are advantages in fabricating transport devices in
small local workshops. Factory-made products need effective supply
systems. They should be locally repairable and backed with good rural
stocks of parts. |
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Tyre repair service in Zimbabwe |
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Wheels and axles for carts on
sale in Tanzania
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It is often
difficult to buy intermediate means of transport in rural areas. Cart
adoption is often limited by lack of wheels and axle assemblies. In
some countries, if rural traders were assisted to maintain stocks
of components and parts, the number and range of local transport solutions
would increase.
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Small cart workshop in Burkina Faso |
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Artisanal cart workshops in Senegal |
| Local manufacture (or local assembly) by artisans in the small workshops
of market towns may enhance rural supplies of intermediate means of
transport. Local production generally assures good repair and maintenance
services. Some technologies benefit from factory-scale manufacture
or importation. Where this is the case, emphasis should be on development
of effective supply systems, with good stocks of transport devices
and parts in rural areas. |
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