Understand the impact. Improve the work.
Mobility affects how people earn, how neighbourhoods connect and how vehicles use energy and resources. We welcome organisations that want to explore those effects and work on practical improvements.
Bring your perspective.
NGOs & nonprofits
Bring local knowledge and experience of environmental or social needs. Help identify where a practical collaboration could be useful.
Researchers & technical partners
Explore clear questions, suitable measures and the evidence needed to understand an operating model or proposed change.
International & development organisations
Discuss programme expertise, local research, learning or capacity building around mobility and livelihoods.
Questions worth working on.
Making electric mobility work
What would make EV adoption practical for a particular fleet and its Captains? Explore vehicle suitability, running costs, battery swapping for compatible two-wheelers and energy support for other vehicle types.
Care across the vehicle’s life
How can vehicle care, battery handling and appropriate repair or recovery arrangements reduce avoidable waste? Identify the partners and records needed to assess the full picture.
Livelihoods & everyday access
How do operating arrangements affect Captain experience and earning opportunities? Where could local transport connections make everyday journeys easier? Include the people affected when shaping the questions.
Make the evidence useful.
A good starting point is a question we can answer together, with the limits of the evidence made clear.
- Define the comparison
- Set the starting position, location, period and people or vehicles included. Agree what change is being assessed.
- Look at benefits and trade-offs
- Consider costs, reliability and people’s experience alongside energy and resource use. Ask who benefits and who carries any additional burden.
- Agree how to learn
- Choose relevant records and feedback, agree how information will be used, and distinguish measured results from estimates or expectations.
A clear role for each partner.
We can explore a role around vehicles, Captains, fleet operations or local infrastructure. A proposal should set out the practical work, each organisation’s contribution, the evidence available and the resources needed before it moves forward.
Explore the questions behind meaningful impact.
What to compare before calling an EV transition better
Evaluate the service, energy, cost and Captain experience together, with an explicit boundary for any environmental claim.
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Understand livelihood outcomes with the people doing the work
A useful impact study looks at earnings, time, costs and lived experience, with Captains helping define what progress means.
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Start with the question you want to answer.
Tell us about your organisation, the issue or research question, the location and the collaboration you have in mind. Include the expertise you bring and the kind of involvement you are seeking from Sparrow.