Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020

Second Global Meeting of NGOs Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims

14 March 2011 Laura Sminkey

Towards the Decade2004: World Health Day / launch WRRTIP / UNGA and WHA

resolutions / UN Road Safety Collaboration

2007: First UN Global Road Safety Week / Youth Declaration for Road Safety

2008: UNGA recognizes World Day of Remembrance

2009: First Global Meeting of NGOs / NGO Brussels Declaration / Second report Commission for Global Road Safety / First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety / launch GSRRS

2010: UNGA announces Decade

Vision and goal of the Decade Vision: A world in which mobility is safe for all those who use the world's roads.

Goal: To halt or reverse the increasing trend in road traffic fatalities around the world.

Saving millions of lives across the Decade

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Global plan for the Decade The Pillars:

• Road safety management

• Roads and broader transport networks

• Vehicles

• Behaviour of road users

• Post-crash care

Launch of the Decade • 11 May 2011

• High-profile event

• Dignitaries present national plan for the Decade

• Media cover event

• Road safety tag projected on national landmark

Road safety "tag"

• A unifying global symbol for road safety

• Wear. Believe. Act.

• Available to all NGOs for purchase as a wearable or decorative item

• Available to all NGOs for free for use on printed and other advocacy materials

• Not to be altered or used in conjunction with private sector logos

• Tool for fundraising

www.decadeofaction.org

Launches of the Decade (to date)

BotswanaBrazilCambodiaCanadaChinaCroatiaDR of the CongoEgyptFranceIndiaKenyaMexicoNew ZealandNigeria

PhilippinesRomaniaRussian FederationSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaTanzaniaThailandTurkeyUgandaUnited KingdomUnited StatesVenezuelaViet Nam

Statements of supportIn process:

President BrazilFormer President Costa RicaPrime Minister EgyptPresident FrancePresident Russian FederationPresident MexicoPrime Minister United KingdomSecretaries Health and

Transport United States

Across the Decade 2011-2020

We should:

• Commit to the long-term

• Be strategic

• Be realistic

• Base efforts on evidence

• Make use of existing materials

• Engage with partners

• Prioritize national and local action

WHO/UNRSC support to Decade

• Secretariat• Technical guidance• Monitoring tool: global status reports• Advocacy materials: tag, toolkit for

organizers, posters • Web sites: list of focal points, calendar of

activities, video statements of support • The Road Safety Fund

NGO support to Decade • Encourage government to nominate a focal point, inform

WHO

• Promote the Global Plan, encourage government to produce national plan

• Plan launch event, register with WHO

• Promote, purchase, wear the road safety tag

• Join us on Facebook

• Share your photos

• Link to web sites from your web site

www.who.int/roadsafety

Actions taken and progress made during this Decade can make the world’s roads safer for generations to come. This would be a welcome gift for the future.

Dr Margaret Chan WHO Director-General