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Bliss Breen Implementing the Recommendations of World Report on Road Traffi World Public Disclosure Authorized Implementing the Recommendations of the World Report on Road Traffi c Injury Prevention Implementing the Recommendations of the World Report on Road Traffi c Injury Prevention Country Guidelines for the Conduct of Road Safety Management Capacity Reviews and the Specifi cation of Lead Agency Reforms, Investment Strategies Country Guidelines for the Conduct of Road Safety and Safe System Projects c Injury Prevention Management Capacity Reviews and the Specifi cation he World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank jointly issued the World TReport on Road Traffi c Injury Prevention on World Health Day 2004, dedicated by of Lead Agency Reforms, Investment Strategies Public Disclosure Authorized the WHO to the improvement of global road safety. The report’s publication signaled a growing concern in the global community about the scale of the health losses associated and Safe System Projects with escalating motorization and a recognition that urgent measures had to be taken to sustainably reduce their economic and social costs. Implementing the report’s recommendations has become a priority mandated in successive UN General Assembly Resolutions and these guidelines have been prepared to assist this task. Reforms,Investment Strategies and Safe System Projects Capacity Reviews and the Specifi Country Guidelines for the Conduct of Road Safety Management Road safety management systems have evolved in high-income countries over the last fi fty years and the challenge for all countries will be to benefi t from the lessons learned, to avoid perpetuating the unnecessary and unacceptably high level of deaths and injuries experienced on the world’s roads. This will require low and middle-income countries to shift rapidly and decisively to what has been termed the Safe System approach which aims to eliminate road deaths and serious injuries, rather than chart a fatalistic pathway Public Disclosure Authorized that accepts these impacts as an inevitable price of economic progress. The challenge for high-income countries will be to continue to innovate on the basis of sound safety principles and go beyond what is currently known to be eff ective, to achieve even higher levels of safety performance. The fi ndings of the World Report culminated in six overarching recommendations that cation of Lead Agency set out the strategic initiatives necessary to improve country road safety performance. Implementing these recommendations will require capacity building at the global, regional and country levels to create the resources and tools necessary to target initiatives on a scale capable of reducing signifi cantly and sustainably the huge economic and social losses arising from road deaths and injuries. The guidelines presented in this report provide a pragmatic approach designed to overcome institutional capacity barriers and achieve sustainable results. Public Disclosure Authorized Tony Bliss • Jeanne Breen Implementing the Recommendations of the World Report on Road Traffi c Injury Prevention Country Guidelines for the Conduct of Road Safety Management Capacity Reviews and the Specifi cation of Lead Agency Reforms, Investment Strategies and Safe System Projects Tony Bliss • Jeanne Breen June 2009 © 2009 The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility 1818 H Street NW Washington DC 20433 All rights reserved 1 2 3 4 5 11 10 09 08 This volume is a product of the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in this volume do not necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of The World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. Rights and Permissions The material in this publication is copyrighted. Copying and/or transmitting portions or all of this work without permission may be a violation of applicable law. The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility encourages dissemination of its work and will normally grant permission to reproduce portions of the work promptly. Contents FOREWORD . xiii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . xv 1. INTRODUCTION. 1 1.1 Projected country losses. .1 1.2 Blueprint for action . 2 1.3 Institutional capacity weaknesses . 2 1.4 Purpose of guidelines . .3 2. WORLD REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS . 5 2.1 Recommendations. .5 Recommendation 1 Identify a lead agency in government to guide the national road safety effort . 5 Recommendation 2 Assess the problem, policies and institutional settings relating to road traffic injury and the capacity for road traffic injury prevention in each country . 5 Recommendation 3 Prepare a national road safety strategy and plan of action . 6 Recommendation 4 Allocate financial and human resources to address the problem . 6 Recommendation 5 Implement specific actions to prevent road traffic crashes, minimize injuries and their consequences and evaluate the impact of these actions. 6 Recommendation 6 Support the development of national capacity and international cooperation. 6 2.2 Implementation issues . 7 3. MANAGING FOR RESULTS . 9 3.1 Road safety management system . 9 3.1.1 Institutional management functions . 10 (i) Results focus . 11 (ii) Coordination. 11 (iii) Legislation . 11 (iv) Funding and resource allocation. 11 (v) Promotion . 11 (vi) Monitoring and evaluation . 12 (vii) Research and development and knowledge transfer . 12 3.1.2 Interventions. 12 iii IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WORLD REPORT ON ROAD TRAFFIC INJURY PREVENTION 3.1.3 Results . 12 3.1.4 Evolution of results focus. 12 (i) Phase 1: Focus on driver interventions . 12 (ii) Phase 2: Focus on system-wide interventions . 14 (iii) Phase 3: Focus on system-wide interventions, targeted results and institutional leadership. 14 (iv) Phase 4: Focus on Safe System long-term elimination of deaths and injuries and shared responsibility . 14 3.1.5 Conducting capacity reviews . 15 3.2 Role of lead agency . 16 3.3 Country investment model. 16 3.3.1 Building management capacity . 16 3.3.2 Learning by doing. 17 3.4 Building global, regional and country capacity. 19 3.5 An integrated implementation framework . 20 4. COUNTRY IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES . 23 4.1 Implementation stages . 23 4.2 Stage 1: Conduct country capacity review . 25 4.2.1 Set review objectives . 25 4.2.2 Prepare for review . 25 (i) High-level political commitment. 25 (ii) Composition of review team . 25 (iii) Pre-review inception report. 26 (iv) Consultation schedule . 26 4.2.3 Appraise results focus at system level. 27 4.2.4 Appraise results focus at interventions level . 29 4.2.5 Appraise results focus at institutional management functions level . 33 4.2.6 Assess lead agency role . 37 (i) Weak lead agency capacity. 37 (ii) Basic lead agency capacity . 37 (iii) Advanced lead agency capacity . 37 (iv) Identify lead agency strengthening priorities . 39 4.2.7 Specify investment strategy and identify Safe System implementation projects. 40 (i) Identify funding sources . 40 (ii) Determine sequencing of investments . 40 (iii) Identify Safe System projects to implement investment strategy . 41 4.2.8 Confirm review findings at high-level workshop . 42 (i) Participants . 42 (ii) Procedures . 42 (iii) Reach official consensus on review findings . 42 4.2.9 Finalize review report. ..

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