Etienne Krug, Director, Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, WHO
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Global road safety policy context
Etienne Krug, Director
Department for Management of Noncommunicable
Diseases, Disability, Violence & Injury Prevention
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Global Road Safety : 1999 to date
2004 2016
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Ministerial meeting: Russia 2009
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2nd Global High-Level Conference on Road
Safety: 18-19 November, Brazil 2015
First meeting of
parliamentarians
Brasilia Declaration
on Road Safety
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2nd Global High-Level Conference on Road Safety
(Brazil) Side event
Parliamentarians for global road safety - Building a
legislators network
Dr Chan welcomes proposal to set up a global network
for road safety legislators
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Governing bodies
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
World Health Assembly (WHA)
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Resolutions and SG reportsUNGAResA/58/289
WHA57.10
UNGAResA/60/5
UNGASGreportA/62/257
UNGAResA/62/244
UNGASGreportA/64/266
UNGAResA/64/255
UNGASGreportA/66/389
UNGAResA/66/260
UNGASGreportA/68/368
UNGAResA/68/269
MoscowDeclaration
BrasiliaDeclaration
UNGASGreportA/68/368
UNGAResA/70/260
WHA69.7
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Global Plan of the UN Decade of Action for
Road Safety 2011-2020
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Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road
Safety: 5 Pillars
Pillar 1
Road safety
management
Pillar 2
Safer roads
and mobility
Pillar 3
Safer
vehicles
Pillar 4
Safer road
users
Pillar 5
Post-crash
response
INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACTIVITIES
NATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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UN Road Safety Collaboration
Created in 2004
Informal consultative mechanism
Secretariat: WHO
85 Members from UN agencies, other international
agencies, governments, foundations and academic centres,
nongovernmental organizations, and private sector.
Goal: strengthen international collaboration among UN
agencies & other international partners
www.who.int/roadsafety
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Global Alliance for road safety NGOs
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Global status report on road safety
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"Death on the roads"
The GSRRS data visualization tool
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2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Mandate to reduce deaths & injuries
3.6
By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from
road traffic accidents
11.2
By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible,
green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older
persons and persons with disabilities
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Where are we currently?
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Where do we need to get to?
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What needs to happen?
A holistic approach: the Safe
System approach
Four essential elements
– Safe speeds
– Safe roads and roadsides
– Compliant road users
– Safe vehicles
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SaveLIVES Package
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Mandate to improve laws
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In the last 3 years only, 17 countries representing 409 million
people have updated their laws on one or more risk factors in
line with best practice
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UN Vehicle safety standards
Vehicles sold in 80% of all countries fail to meet priority
vehicle standards
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Best practices to improve road safety
legislation
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Mandate to develop global targets
UN GA asked WHO to develop
performance targets and
indicators on risk factors and
service delivery.
Accepted through WHA.
Member State driven process
– Start May 2016
– End May 2018
Evidence developed by WHO
with partners.
The Global Alliance for road safety NGOs is a network of approximately 80 NGOs from various countries and regions around the world. It includes professional NGOs, like Handicap International, the Global Road Safety Collaboration, etc as well as Victims' organizations, such as the Association for Safe International Road Travel, Mothers against drunk driving, etc.
These NGOs are instrumental in getting civil society involved in road safety programmes. In particular, they facilitate the celebration of World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims every 3rd Sunday in November and also play an important role in the regular UN Road safety weeks.
In September 2015 the United Nations launched the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the development framework that replaces and builds on the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals. Road safety was absent from the Millennium Development Goals but road safety targets have been integrated into the new 2030 Agenda.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets are intended to balance the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, and stimulate action over the next 15 years in these critical areas. They include two targets that relate to road safety, one in SDG 3 (on health), and one in SDG 11 (on transport for sustainable cities).
The inclusion of a specific road safety target and indicator in the SDGs is a significant advance for road safety. It acknowledges that there is a strong scientific base around what works, as evidenced through the success of a number of countries in reducing the burden of road traffic deaths. It also recognizes the importance of this issue to broader global health and development, and the need for countries and the international community to prioritize action towards achieving results even before the end of the SDG period.