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Road Safety Education
From primary to lower secondary schools
Cambodia
Mr Boran PEN
Chief of road safety
General Secretariat of National Road Safety Committee
Overview of road safety in Cambodia
traffic accidents make up 46% of all recorded injuries.
Road traffic accidents, casualties and fatalities increase more proportionally
than road traffic and population.
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Every day, more
then 4 persons die
and other 70 are
injured.
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Over the last five
years, the number of
fatalities has tripled.
The total economic
loss of road traffic
accidents is
estimated at 116
million US$ annually
(ADB) in 2004.
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Sources: RTAVIS annual report 2007
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Overview of road safety in Cambodia
the fatality rate (in 100,000 inhabitants) has increased since 1998, with the highest rate
recorded in 2007 (10.8 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants), an increase of 17%
compared to 2006
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Number of fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants
Sources: RTAVIS annual report 2007
Target for
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Target for
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Number of fatalities per 10,000 registered vehicles
Overview of road safety in Cambodia
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Sources: RTAVIS annual report 2007
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Overview of road safety in Cambodia
People aged between 20 and 29 years old represent the highest percentage of
fatalities (almost 40%).
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Sources: RTAVIS annual report 2007
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Overview of road safety in Cambodia
Majority of children get injured when traveling by motorbike as a pedestrian, and
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Happening
In 2004, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
(MoEYS) in collaboration with Handicap International
decided to introduce a specific road safety curriculum in
the Cambodian primary school curriculum, from grade 1
to grade 6 (age 6 to 12).
Happening
Then, following the successful implementation, in 2007,
with support from Educating New Zealand, the road safety
curriculum has been extended to lower secondary
schools.
Happening
General approach:
- Road Safety Education is integrated into:
1. The Local Life Skill Program (selected subject): 10 lessons per
grade;
2. Main Curriculum: Social Studies
- Road safety education is linked to the motorbike driving
license programs (for students age 16 years old)
- Practical activities in playgrounds have been introduced to
teachers and students as part of the lessons
- Traffic police officers have been involved to deliver some part
of the lessons;
- Capacity building to local team
Happening
Content:
• Overview of the main characteristics of the street,
transport environment;
• Safe behaviour (pedestrian, passenger; driver)
• Traffic law
Happening
Achievement: been implemented in all provinces/cities:
– Development of comprehensive road safety education
curriculum for student s (6 to 15 years old)
– Effective teaching practice through teacher training
program
– Development of teaching and student materials
– Capacity building to local team
Happening
Achievement:
– Improvement of student knowledge
Baseline and post survey in primary schools in Phnom Penh after one year
implementation
Classification
Poor
Very Good
Excellent
Baseline
26.4%
11.2%
4.1%
Endline
5.2%
33.0%
15.0%
Change
- 21.2 %
+ 21.8%
+ 10.9%
Lesson learnt
• Integration into:
– Main curriculum (social studies): can ensure the
sustainability of the curricular, but need
opportunity and take more time,
– local life skill program (a selected subject): take
shorter time for the approval and implementation,
but it is a vulnerable program and need more
commitment from schools
 Need to target both (social study and local
life skill programs)
Lesson learnt
• Practical teaching method (in partnership with traffic police
officers):
– It is very important for road safety education and well
appreciated by teachers and students.
– Challenges:
• it requires time allocated in school schedule to practice and
commitment from teachers
• Some teachers require more incentives to do (low salary in the
education system)
Lesson learnt
• Coordination/collaboration with other
education projects: there are many stakeholders
involved in the education system (UNICEF, Save the
children,…) with many education projects (child friendly
school program, support to local life skill program,…).
Mainstreaming approach can be used for road safety
education with other education projects.
 Mainstreaming in other education
projects/activities
Lesson learnt
• Coordination/collaboration with other relevant
ministries contribute to the success of project
implementation:
– Ministry of interior: traffic police officers in schools
– Ministry of health: health staff getting in schools
– Ministry of public work and transport: driving license
program
Lesson learnt
• Link to driving license program: (students, 16 years
old, can directly apply for the driving license test, after they
complete the lessons)
– motivates schools to deliver road safety education
curriculum;
– But, it may strengthen the focus of the teaching on
traffic law rather than on safe behaviour.
Lesson learnt
• Monitoring:
– Lack of coordination between departments of
training and implementation and the department of
inspection, who responsible for the monitoring
Need more coordination for the integration
into the permanent monitoring system of
the ministry
Lesson learnt
• Materials: different contexts between town and rural
areas
Additional materials should be localized in
according to the different context (rural road vs
urban road,…)
Lesson learnt
• Other challenges:
– Limited national budget for road safety education;
– Need more capacity building among teachers,
especially on safe behaviour, traffic law, traffic
sign, and active teaching technique
Next steps
• Review the primary school
curriculum, after 4-year
implementation;
• Extend the lower secondary
school curriculum to other 10
provinces;
• Develop the road safety
curriculum for high schools
(Grades 10-12)
Thank you