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Preparing for the Global Ministerial Conference
Presentation by David Ward, Director General, FIA Foundation
Road Safety, Ibero-America and the Caribbean
Madrid 24th February 2009
World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention
(WHO/World Bank 2004)
• Warns that 1.2 million deaths and 50 million
injuries occur annually on the road, mainly
affecting vulnerable road users, and will more
than double by 2020.
• Shows that low and middle income countries account for
90% of global deaths from road traffic crashes.
• Identifies key injury risk factors (non use of seat belts, helmets,
excessive speed, drink driving, and poor road infrastructure);
• Calls for greater international effort to reverse trend of rising RTIs;
• Recommends national prevention strategies based on a ‘lead agency’
responsible for developing a multi-sectoral ‘safe systems’ approach.
The ‘Safety Systems’ Approach
Three components in a dynamic
system:
• The road user
• The motor vehicle
• The road infrastructure
Rather than ‘blaming the victim’ for causing crashes, the risk of human error
is anticipated and ‘tolerated’ by a ‘forgiving’ system that has been designed to
ensure that the consequences of human error are non fatal as far as possible.
The design challenge is to manage loss of control of kinetic energy within
tolerances survivable by the human body.
DALYS in Developing Countries (Children Age 5-14)
(DALYS = Disability Adjusted Life Years)
Twelve Leading Causes of Mortality, 2002
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
7
Diarrhoeal diseases
3.3
8
Tuberculosis
2.7
9
Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers
2.2
10
Road traffic injuries
2.1
11
Diabetes mellitus
1.7
12
Malaria
1.6
International Action on Malaria
• Abuja Action Plan 2000
• UN Decade to Roll Back Malaria 2001-2010
• Global Fund launched by G8 and
US $2.8 billion funding approved to date.
• UN Special Envoy for Malaria
About the Commission:
• An independent High Level Commission under the Chairmanship of
the former NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson with a member
from each of the G8 countries and all major world regions;
• Supported by an expert advisory group including representatives
from the WHO, World Bank, OECD, UNECE and NGOs;
• Funded by the FIA Foundation a UK registered charity established to
promote road safety, the environment and sustainable mobility
Make Roads Safe Report
Key Recommendations:
• A $300 million, 10 year Action Plan to
promote multi-sector national road safety
capacity building in low and middle income
countries should be funded by donor governments and private sources
and managed by the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility;
• At a minimum 10% of all road infrastructure projects should be committed
to road safety design, rating and assessment and community wide initiatives;
• A Ministerial Conference on Global Road Safety should be held in 2009 to
review implementation of the World Report recommendations;
Launch of Make Road Safe campaign
The Make Roads Safe campaign is launched to obtain
over 1 million signatures to be presented to the
UN Secretary General in 2008. The petition campaign is
launched by Michael Schumacher during the first UN
Global Road Safety Week in April 2007.
Campaign events are held in London, Geneva, Berlin, Cape
Town, Paris, St Petersburg, Kampala, and New York.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is joined by President Oscar Arias,
and former President Jimmy Carter as three Nobel prize
winners backing the campaign. Other supporters include the
former Irish President Mary Robinson, Tony Blair, musicians,
Sports stars and the film actress Michelle Yeoh.
Russian Federation Offers to Host UN
Ministerial in Moscow
Russia has the worst road safety performance of
the G8. Their fatality rate per 100,000 is 240 (UK’s
rate is 50). Road safety is now a major domestic
policy priority led by the Interior Ministry.
In 2006 Lord Robertson visited Moscow and meet
with Vice Premier Alexander Zhukov. After further
discussions with General Viktor Kiryanov (Head of
Road Safety Inspectorate) and Ambassador to UK
Yuri Fedotov in September 2007 the Russian Federation
offered to host the proposed UN Ministerial in Moscow
in November 2009.
UN General Assembly Approves
First Ever Ministerial Conference
on Road Safety
In March 2008 the UN General Assembly debates road safety and Resolution
62/244 drafted by the Sultanate of Oman is unanimously approved which
welcomes the offer by the Russian Federation to host the “first high level
(ministerial) conference on road safety”. The Russian Federation confirms
Moscow will be the venue and 19-20 November 2009 as the provisional date.
The Make Roads Safe petition target is reached and presented to UN Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon by Lord Robertson, Michelle Yeoh, Karla Gonzalez.
First Global Ministerial Conference on
Road Safety – Time for Action
Agenda and Opportunities
Review the implementation of the World Report and the road safety
activities of the UN Regional Commission’s, WHO, World Bank etc.
Agree on common definitions for key road safety related data, identify
best practice on key risk factors, and support the concept of ‘forgiving
roads’ etc.
Review the work of the UN World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle
Regulations and the role of the 1949/1968 UN Road Traffic Conventions.
Agree to a Decade of Action for Road Safety 2010-2020 with the goal of
reducing the forecast level of fatalities by 50% by 2020.
OECD – International Transport Forum
‘Towards Zero – Ambitious Road Safety
Targets & the Safe System Approach
Key Recommendations:
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Adopt a highly ambitious vision for road safety
Set interim targets to move systematically towards the vision
Develop a safe system approach
Exploit proven interventions for early gains
Conduct data collection and analysis
Strengthen the road safety management system
Accelerate knowledge transfer
Invest in road safety
Foster commitment at highest levels of government
Road Safety Targets
Regional casualty reduction targets include:
• European Union and European Conference of Ministers of Transport to
reduce fatalities by 50% by 2010 and 2012 respectively
• UNESCAP (Asia Pacific) Ministers agreed to cut deaths by 600,000 by
2015
• UNECA (Africa) Ministers of Health & Transport agreed to reduce road
fatalities by 50% by 2015
Global Road Safety Action Plan:
The Action Plan to be implemented on
two levels:
Global and regional: supporting UN
coordination, professional capacity of
regional organisations, exchange of
good practice, and adoption of regional
injury prevention targets
Country level: supporting assessment
and research, institutional capacity
building, demonstration projects, and
post crash interventions.
Global/Regional
Activity
$30 million
Assessment &
Research
$30 million
Institutional
Capacity
$105 million
Demonstration
Projects
$90 million
Post Crash
$45 million
Total
$300 million
Road to Moscow: Next Steps
Rome Conference 5th May
• Launch of the second Make Roads Safe report at a major conference in
Rome on 5th May 2009 linked to the Italian Presidency of the G8
• Launch of the Make Roads Safe documentary film with Michelle Yeoh
which features visits to Asia, Africa and Latin America and will highlight
the key messages of the Commission’s reports.
• Focus the Make Roads Safe campaign on the theme of a decade of
action to achieve a 50% reduction in forecast fatalities by 2020.
Agenda for Moscow
Make 2010-2020 A Decade of
Action for Road Safety
• Support an action plan of $300 million to invest in capacity building in
road injury prevention...
• Invest in safer roads by committing at least 10% of project finance to
safe road assessment and design.
• Agree a global target to reduce road fatalities by 50% from their
forecast level for 2020.
Thank You !