Road safety management capacity reviews and safe system projects guidelines

Abstract

This updated edition has been prepared to complement the previous guidelines issued by the World Bank that were designed to support the successful implementation of the recommendations of the world report on road traffic injury prevention. The first guidelines were issued in 2004, soon after the launch of the World Report, in the form a brief transport note. Based on the lessons learned with their application they were subsequently revised and expanded and published as a major document in 2009 (hereafter referred to as the 'core guidelines'). The updated edition reissues the core guidelines (without amendment, but minus their detailed annexes) and summarizes the lessons learned in their application so far. It also provides a streamlined approach to support country investment operations where there is already a country commitment to strengthen road safety management capacity and significantly invest in a related road safety project designed to address capacity strengthening priorities. Over the coming decade of action for road safety 2011, 2020 country road safety performance objectives will be aligned with the five pillars of the global action plan that has been prepared to address key priorities (road safety management capacity, infrastructure safety, vehicle safety, road user behavior and post-crash care). As promoted in the core guidelines, the World Bank focus over the Decade will be on mainstreaming road safety projects that address these five pillars as an integral part of road infrastructure and urban transport investments, to help accelerate knowledge transfer and scale up country investment to improve road safety results. Furthermore, under the Multilateral Development Bank Road Safety Initiative, the World Bank is partnering with the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, CAF, Development Bank of Latin America, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and the Islamic Development Bank to leverage investment over the decade in safe system road safety projects, and the updated edition is designed to support this initiative.