The Campaign for Global Road Safety

The Road Safety Decade

Rita CuypersFIA Foundation

• Leading global road safety donor: $20 million + since 2002

• Supporting WHO, World Bank Global Road Safety Facility & iRAP

• Supporting research and implementation: e.g. Malaysian motorcycle safety research; Chinese driver training; Australian NCAP; AIPF helmet campaigns

• Global advocacy for road safety: Commission for Global Road Safety & Make Roads Safe Campaign

Role of the

Commission for Global Road Safety

• Should be addressed like comparable global issues such as Malaria & HIV AIDS

• Impacts on social and economic development - $100 billion annual cost to developing countries

• Immediate ‘vaccines’ are available: helmets, seat belts, road design improvements

• First Make Roads Safe report made 3 recommendations:

Make Roads Safe: the case for action

1.United Nations Global Road Safety Ministerial Conference

Make Roads Safe Recommendations:

A Million Names for Safer Roads

Michelle Yeoh, Global Ambassador

Nobel Peace Laureates urge UN Conference

Petition presented to Ban Ki-moon

UN Road Safety Conference approved

2. 10% of international (e.g. World Bank, Asian Development bank, donor country) road infrastructure budgets for road safety

Make Roads Safe Recommendations:

• Safer Roads Conference, July 2008, brought together all the main lending banks, plus key donor countries and UN regional commissions

• World Bank and regional banks have established a working group to develop common approach to road infrastructure safety

• Road assessment being adopted by donors, development banks and countries

Safe Road Infrastructure

3. $300 million, ten year, Action Plan to catalyse road safety activity

Make Roads Safe Recommendations:

UN debates road safety

UN debates Malaria

Rank Deaths Cause Proportion of total (%)

1 Ischaemic heart disease 12.6

2 Cerebrovascular disease 9.7

3 Lower respiratory infections 6.9

4 HIV/AIDS 4.8

5 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 4.8

6 Perinatal conditions 4.3

78

Diarrhoeal diseases Tuberculosis

3.32.7

9 Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers 2.2

10 Road traffic injuries 2.1

11 Diabetes mellitus 1.7

12 Malaria 1.6

A Hidden EpidemicTwelve Leading Causes of Mortality, 2002

International Action on Malaria

• Abuja Action Plan 2000 • UN Decade to Roll Back Malaria 2001-2010

• Roll Back Malaria Initiative

• Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB launched by G8: $11.3 billion in 136 countries

• UN Special Envoy for Malaria

DALYS in Developing Countries (Children Age 5-14)

Make Roads Safe agenda for 2009 UN Conference

• Decade of Action for Road Safety

• $300 million catalytic Action Plan funded by governments and foundations

• Safe Road Infrastructure investment funded by World Bank and regional banks

• Urge greater private sector support (e.g. for GRSP)

• Ambitious and visionary target for reducing projected increase in road deaths by 2020

Let’s work to make the next decade…

2010 - the road safety decade - 2020

The Campaign for Global Road Safety

www.makeroadssafe.org