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Participatory user-focussed networks (formal or informal) can link all stakeholders and encourage them to collaborate and learn from each other. National and international networking improves information exchange, cooperation, understanding and successful technical progress.
Photograph by Paul Starkey ©
Network members discuss manufacturing issues with a cart manufacturer during a workshop on the design, testing and manufacture of carts held in collaboration with the Animal Power Network of Zimbabwe (APNEZ) and the Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa.
Photograph by Paul Starkey © Demonstration of donkey transport technologies at a workshop organised by the Ethiopian Network of Animal Traction (ENAT) and the Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa (ATNESA). Photograph by Paul Starkey © Demonstration of intermediate forms of transport at a workshop organised by the Lanka Forum for Rural Transport and Development.

The workshop and demonstration was attended by a wide range of local stakeholders, as well as by international delegates.