Road Safety Global Movement Socheata SANN RS Regional Liaison Officer
Content Global status on road safety Main Evolution Key stakeholders in the region
Global Status on Road Safety Source: Global Status report on Road Safety – Time for Action, WHO 2009
Global Status on Road Safety
Source: Global Status report on Road Safety – Time for Action, WHO 2009
Global Status on Road Safety HIB targets: African region & Western Pacific region Source: Global Status report on Road Safety – Time for Action, WHO 2009
Per 100,000 population More than 90% of the world’s road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries – even though these countries have less than half of the world’s registered vehicles Global Status on Road Safety Source: Global Status report on Road Safety – Time for Action, WHO 2009
Global Status on Road Safety The report highlighted: Speeding, Helmet, Seat-belt Drink Driving HIB Strategy / Presentation: On the key risk factors? Source: Global Status report on Road Safety – Time for Action, WHO 2009
Road safety is underfunded (~$13 million in funding) Global Status on Road Safety Source: Presentation on RS 10, By Gayle De Pietro
Main evolution Decade of Action for Road Safety –Introduced by Make Road Safe Campaign (FIA Foundation) –Nov. 2009: Moscow Declaration – by >100 countries –Mar.2010: UN agreed Global Decade of Action for Road Safety
Main evolution Decade of Action for RS: Goal
Main evolution Decade of Action for RS: Objective: Reduction of fatalities by 2020; –increased priority to RS –increased funding –increased human resources –technical support; –improved data –monitoring
Main evolution Decade of Action for RS Pillar 8 Vulnerable Road Users Pillar 7 Driving Licenses Pillar 6 Law Enforcement HIB Contribution ( Update in our position paper?)
Main evolution Decade of Action for RS: Next step –Circulation for comments –Final discuss in the 12 th UN Collaboration Meeting in Geneva – Oct –Official launching: RS week in April 2011 HIB Participation into the Discussion UN Collaboration meeting
RS 10 Project Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies Commitment of $125 million over 5 yrs to the global programme 6 consortium partners with own funding Implemented at country level by a national working group Main evolution HIB Cambodia in the working group
Main evolution RS 10 Project: Objective –Objective: Prevention: implement road traffic injury prevention projects in ten focus countries to reduce death and disability, and to develop model programs. Monitoring trends and raising global awareness: publish the second and third Global status report on road safety, to measure progress since the first GSRRS.
RS 10 Project: Countries 10 low- and middle-income countries = almost half (48%) of traffic deaths globally Main evolution
RS 10 Project: Countries Main evolution
EMBARQ (T, I, M, Br) WHO All 10 countries Implementing activities ASIRT (K, E, T) JHU All 10 countries Monitoring - Evaluation GRSP All 10 countries Capacity Building WB (I, C, R) RS 10 Project: Consortium Partners Main evolution HIB Cambodia: Funded by GRSP/JHU Future collaboration with: GRSP: projects JHU: Research/Monitoring
Key stakeholders in the region GRSP: actions: –Bloomberg fund –GRSI 2: Partnership project (Proactive Partnership Strategy - PPS) target one specific town/city Main risk factors: helmet – DD – Speeding Education for children – safe route to school
Key stakeholders in the region GRSP: actions: –Countries: Cambodia : through HIB, CRC, NRSC Lao PDR: through NRSC, HIB (under discussion – Check for PPS) VN: GRSP Country manager (structure to be revised/confirmed in Nov.) HIB GRSI 2 Cambodia and Lao PDR? VN?
Key stakeholders in the region WHO: actions: –Bloomberg fund – RS 10 project –Others fund –Countries: …….Cambodia, Lao PDR (not RS 10), VN, mainly through the governments Attention on the relationship Between HIB and WHO – country levels
Key stakeholders in the region AIPF: The Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative –Fund/Partners: FIA Foundation, WB, and ADB –Actions: Helmet For Kids Traffic Safety Education Helmet Factories Public Awareness Campaigns Research… –USD 5.8 M for 5 years Relationship between HIB & AIPF?
Key stakeholders in the region FIA Foundation: To be targeted for Research Concept note – to be discussed at the UN collaboration meeting ADB: New strategy (launched in May 2010) – to be detailed during the Asian GRSP seminar AusAid: their disability strategy – no news yet EU: supported Cambodia and VN program – to be targeted for new proposals? HIB Funding Strategy in the Region?
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