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Women moving in the city

Women moving in the city

Scania believes in a gender-balanced workforce which offers equal career opportunities for men and women. In West Africa, Scania is playing a leading role in reducing the gender gap in Ghana’s transport industry. Nearly 100 women have trained to become bus or truck drivers in the Ghanaian capital Accra through the Scania campaigns ‘Women moving the city’ and ‘Women moving trucks’.

Accra has a population of around four million inhabitants, yet professional female drivers amount to just a decimal percentage of all of the drivers on the road.

‘Women moving the city ’ is a campaign initiated by Scania West Africa in partnership with the Greater Accra Passenger Transport Executive (GAPTE) and the German international development organisation Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

The campaign aims to boost the number of women drivers in the city’s public transport system by offering participants special tailor-made training for female bus drivers. In addition to learning how to drive safely, participants also learn how to drive efficiently to help reduce fuel costs.

Driving change in Ghana

21 Mar 2018 The initiative to recruit and train more female bus drivers in Ghanaian capital Accra, has now passed the halfway mark. Having undergone weeks of training, the women are now well on their way to becomming qualified bus drivers.

Scania empowers women to move the city of Accra

15 Oct 2018 The campaigns “Women moving the city” and “Women moving trucks” aim to reduce the gender gap in Ghana’s transport industry. Nearly 100 women have trained to become bus or truck drivers in the capital Accra.

A sustainable society

13 Nov 2023 We see it as our responsibility to act in different situations and problems that appear wherever we are based. These may be situations that do not necessarily have anything to do with transport – but which nonetheless can deeply can affect the community of which we are a part.

SWP

20 May 2025 Scania partners with the Swedish Workplace Programme. The programme is based on the proven partnership model where management and employees jointly solve problems and improve the daily operations of business, growth including occupational health and safety (OHS), skills development, gender equality and diversity in the workplace.

One Scania, one tree

13 Nov 2023 Since 2013, Scania Ibérica has planted one tree for every vehicle sold in Spain and Portugal. The Bosque Scania – “Scania Forest” – in Rivas Vaciamadrid, close to the Spanish capital, is now filled with more than 24,000 pine, oak, cypress and almond trees.

War child

13 Nov 2023 The international aid organisation War Child has projects that offer education and psychological support to children of war, to help them process their traumatic experiences, rebuild their self-esteem and increase their trust in other people.