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