SHE CAN Tool

Interventions with short implementation timeframes

Short-term interventions are considered the “low-hanging fruit” to address sexual harassment in public transport. These interventions have an implementation timeframe of shorter than a year and the associated benefits of implementation will also materialise within a year of implementation. Of the 49 interventions included in the tool, 16 fit this description.

Interventions with short to medium implementation timeframes

Interventions with short to medium-term implementation timeframes are interventions that require between one and three years to be implemented, often depending on the scale of implementation. Medium-term interventions are more difficult to implement than short-term interventions. The benefits are, therefore, somewhat delayed, although the magnitude of the benefits can often be larger than the benefits of short-term interventions. A total of 22 of the 49 interventions in this tool match the short to medium-term criterion.

Interventions with long implementation timeframes

Interventions with long-term implementation timeframes are interventions that require more than three years to implement, or that need to be implemented over a sustained period to have the desired impact. Long-term interventions require more planning or implementation time, compared to other interventions. However, the benefits are often significantly larger. Changes to infrastructure, for example, take time, but benefits will ensue for a long time, adding to a large, accumulated volume of benefits. In the tool, there are only 8 out of the 49 interventions included that fall into the long-term intervention category.