Author: stichtingiganga

On 12 and 19 April Ellis van Gorp, Dennis van Sluijs, Rico Andriesse and Eric Vredebregt taught a class on traffic design through Iganga. The request came from the IMC weekend school foundation. This foundation introduces curious young people to enthusiastic professionals in a wide range of fields, to tell them more about all the […]

On Wednesday 17 November 2021 the Iganga foundation organized a second edition of the design studio. Together with colleagues of Goudappel and stakeholders from Marrakech, Paramaribo, Colombo and Jinja, designs were created for a safe and attractive street for everyone. This involves a street with good pedestrian and bicycle facilities and good crossability plus any […]

The Dutch Cycling Embassy sent out a request for a webinar in January 2021 for the country of Sri Lanka. The Mayor of the capital Colombo is a great advocate of sustainable mobility and safety for cycling and walking in his city. For everyone, young and old, male and female, and despite the hot humid […]

Goudappel and Iganga have been members of the Dutch Cycling Embassy (DCE) for years. This is an internationally operating organization with approximately 80 public and private partners. At the first quarterly meeting of DCE in 2021, Richard ter Avest was asked to present the Iganga activities during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Richards presentation focused […]

Due to the Covid-crisis in 2020, traveling between countries has been near to impossible. Since Iganga was not able to travel to some oversees countries, we decided to re-allocate the budget set aside for physical workshops abroad and explore a different approach to international support and cooperation.  20 planners and designers from Goudappel and Move […]

The inner city of Uganda’s capital has been car-free since last year, partly thanks to visionary designs by Goudappel-colleagues. With the ongoing lockdown indue to corona-measures, the need for better bicycle facilities has only grown. The city requires bicycle parking facilities, so cyclists can securely stall their valuable bikes. Kampala also wishing to take on […]

The Corona pandemic has affected Iganga’s international work. Goudappel’s, Anne Koot was scheduled to travel to Chiclayo, Peru to hold a series of workshops focused on how to create more accessible, livable and sustainable cities. When the pandemic became a worldwide health crisis, Anne had to cancel her trip.  Anne plans to resume the Chiclayo […]

Chris Bartman and Richard ter Avest went to Yangon on behalf of Iganga (the MVO foundation of Goudappel Coffeng) from the 24th of November till the 2nd of December. Yangon is the old capital of Myanmar, a city with approximately 7 million inhabitants. They collaborated on the planning and design of a cycle friendly city. […]

In July a delegation from the Iraqi province of An-Najaf (southwest of Bagdad) visited the Netherlands. On July 5th they came to the capital city of Overijssel Zwolle. They were welcomed by Andries Heidema, the provincial executive chairman in Overijssel. The delegation consisted of the Head of Spatial Planning, the Head of transport and traffic […]

Iganga is currently developing a MOOC (Online course) with TU Delft called: “Envisioning and developing bicycle-friendly cities”. We see that there are many challenges facing developing countries in terms of mobility. The aim of this MOOC is to share knowledge, so that these issues are better addressed in the future. The target group for this […]