Safe for every child: UNICEF’s agenda on road traffic injury

Avi Silverman, Global Partnership on Child Road Injury FIA Foundation-UNICEF

Leading global health burden on school-age children and adolescents

Lancet, IHME Global Burden of Disease

Global Action Agenda on Child RTI

• Integrating RTI into UNICEF’s mainstream strategic approach

• Engaging with

global partners on child RTI

• Supporting action

on RTI in the Post-2015 agenda

Vietnam’s national child RTI strategy • Leveraging

relationships with Government

• Exploiting pre-existing platforms to support interventions

• Agent to catalyse change, scale up and achieve impact on child road injury prevention

China work-plan • Developing child RTI strategy

with Government • Data, research on status of

child road injury • Taskforce, coalition building

with govt. and stakeholders

• Supporting interventions

South Africa: road injury profile • 16,000 deaths a year • 32 deaths per 100,000

population • More than 30 children under

15 killed or injured on roads every day

• A ‘safe system’ for children. Safe road infrastructure, training and education, enforcement.

• Local advocacy, engaging public authorities

• Sustained policy change

from national to provincial and local levels

South Africa: ‘Safe Schools’ Model

Global Advocacy: UN Global Road Safety Week

“Road accidents are the biggest killer of young people in the world…it’s a burden on the poorest countries, the poorest families.” Anthony Lake Executive Director, UNICEF

“We can not afford to pay the price of road crashes with young lives.” Margaret Chan Director General, WHO