EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION UN DECADE OF ACTION

ON ROAD SAFETY

Dr Alan Ross

Road Safety Adviser

E mail : alanross999@gmail.comTel (office) +44 191 209 4165Tel (Home ) +44 191 265 0060

Decade of Action

� UN Decade of Action declared and Global and regional targets already specified � Planning document /Action plan already drafted - proposed start May 2011 � 50% reduction in Global deaths by 2020 required � Yet around 140 countries (out of 190) not capable of delivering casualty reductions

until institutional capacity is first strengthened � How can we make sure countries are assisted and that effective implementation

occurs within the Decade ?

Need

� Reviews of management capacity to identify needs� Capacity building to enable countries to address their safety problems� Institutional strengthening plan to create appropriate capability � Strategic approach to implementation to avoid swamping managers in detail � Ability to drill down for details and to check performance indicators � Small fulltime team working in each UN Regional commission to assist /strengthen

capacity in member countries � Funding $6 millions/year ($ 30 millions over 5 years ) to fund country strengthening

and safety programme/monitoring activities across 190 countries via Regional commissions

The problem (1) We will only get this one chance to change the world so we must not let the

opportunity pass or waste the early years before we start work

(2) Around 190 countries all at different stages of development in terms of road safety- Many currently unable to deliver casualty reductions

(3) Need a phased approach so that all countries systematically brought to a minimum level of competence to address safety ( ie onto the first rung of the road safety ladder )

(4) Need to build on and strengthen the existing structures for sustainability rather than creating new structures ( eg how can we make best use of existing un regional commissions for implementing the Decade Action Plan ?)

(5) Need to minimise demands in data collection

(6) Need ability to estimate progress at any point in time

(7) Need to find ways to scale up activity to groups of countries and to encourage knowledge sharing between them

Present situation –Fragmented and un coordinated

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Increased systematic funding from development banks

�140 countries needing assistance but being done 1 at a time

�Some limited funding in a few existing projects

�Increased development bank funding in 3-4 years time

�Many players active but little coordination or direction

�Some duplication and re inventing of the wheel Many ad hoc, un coordinated and sporadic Activities

The Gap years

Decade of Action on Road Safety

ACTIVITY NEEDED GLOBAL TO LOCAL LEVEL

� Global Level orchestration

� Regional level

� Sub regional level

� Country level

� Sub country level Casualty reduction

Plan

Logical Framework

DEE Framework provides a DEE Framework provides a ““ skeletonskeleton ””overview of key parts of Plan or strategy and overview of key parts of Plan or strategy and

reduces large documents to a few pages reduces large documents to a few pages

(Permits easier discussion and handover)(Permits easier discussion and handover)

DEE Frameworks-Reduce Complexity

Breaking up each element into its main component parts until allBreaking up each element into its main component parts until all key outputs are key outputs are identified and defined via indicators related to their desired pidentified and defined via indicators related to their desired project impactroject impact

SECTOR SUB-SECTOR COMPONENT OUTPUT INDICATOR

Possible approach for monitoring frameworks

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Figure A1 –Global overview Decade Level Sector Performance indicator /Region %age achieved

20 Global road safety Facility to be raising $xx millions/year 20 New innovative funding sources agreed

20 Global 20 New funding sources operational Funding 20 190 Countries 10% of road infra funds to rd safety

20 20 new Multi/Blateral donors funding safety by

10 10 UN/WHO road safety resolutions 20 190 Countries signed up to "Make Roads Safe"

20 Advocasy / 10 Rd Safety indcators included into MDG Awareness 10 Rd Safety discussed in at least 10 high level meetings Raising 10 7 Developt bnks harmonise approaches to road safety

10 5 UN Econ Cmmssns have ministerial declarations on safety 10 3 Global rd safety weeks completed 10 190 Countries holding Ann Remembrance day for victims 10 20 NGO initiatives supported

20 20 Influential Global players identified/and approached 20 Global 20 Orchestration 20 20 Global players mobilising their memberships

Level of Action 20 20 OECD countries assisting /twinning with LMICs Activity 10 Global safety studies program introduced

10 Students from 50 countries participating in global studies 10 Regional minor variations on UN safetyconventions agreed 10 UN conventions on safety adopted by all 190 countries

10 190 Countries have MOH injury surveillance systems 20 Data 10 190 Countries have a good police crash data system

collection / 10 190 Countries analyse + disseminate data to all users analyses 10 190 Countries have standardised defn of death and injury

10 190 Countries have a valuation for death and injury 10 190 Countries able to identify high risk groups + behaviours 10 190 Countries implementing data based Action Plans 10 190 Countries implementing Good practice guidelines 5 Global burden of disease methodology /processes enhanced 10 Regional /sub regional databases beginning to be established

Decade 25 Effective global monitoring system established 0f Road 20 Monitoring 15 UN Econ Cmmssns monitoring their subregional targetsSafety 15 2 Global status of road safety reports

15 5 Regional databases in place in UN Econ Commissions 15 Intermediate indicators included in Regional databases 15 Annual progress reports on global program

33 East Asia 52 UN ESCAP 15 South East Asia

44 South and Southwest Asia 7 North and Central Asia 1 Pacific

22 North Africa 23 UN ECA 32 East Africa

National 28 West Africa 80 Level 4 Central Africa

Activity 14 Southern Africa

6 UN ESCWA 100 ESCWA

29 Central america 7 UN ECLAC 4 Caribbean

67 South America

23 EU ( excl BSEC) 40 BSEC

12 UN ECE 7 EECCA (excl BSEC)1 SEE(excl BSEC)29 N.America

Developmental Objective Reversal of the increasing trend in road crash fatalities around the world by increasing activities at international and national level through strengthening of the global architecture for road safety and improving National capacities to address their road safety problems

Figure A1: Delivering an effective decade of road safety

see figures A2-A6 for regional and sub regional distribution and figures C1-C6 for country specific activities needed in each country within each sub region

UN Regional and sub regional level Regional Economic Sub Countries country safety

Commission Regions assessments

2 Austria 3 Belgium1 Cyprus 3 Czech Republic1 Denmark1 Estonia 1 Finland11 France13 Germany3 Hungary

23 European 1 IrelandUnion 14 Italy(excl BSEC ) 1 Latvia

2 Lithuania1 Luxembourg1 Malta 2 Netherlands14 Poland3 Portugal2 Slovakia1 Slovenia10 Spain 1 Sweden 8 UK

1 Albania 1 Armenia2 Azerbaijan 2 Bulgaria

UN ECE 1 Georgia40 BSEC 2 Greece

1 Rep of Moldovia 4 Romania57 Russian Federation 2 Serbia11 Turkey 16 Ukraine

13 Belarus 42 Kazakhstan

7 EECCA 11 Kyrgizstan(excl BSEC) 4 Tajikistan

6 Turkmenistan 24 Uzbekistan

1 SEE 33 Bosnia &Herzgovina (excl BSEC) 47 Croatia

9 Montenegro11 FYR Macedonia

29 N.America 6 Canada 94 USA

Objective Reduction of road deaths and injuries across UN ECE member countries as a contribution

towards UN global targets for casualty reduction

Figure A3: UN ECE -Possible Regional safety monitoring framework

NB Weightings based on approx distribution of road deaths across region and minimum value assigned

equals 1% so that all are countries counted even if largest %age has to be reduced slightly to permit this

Country level activity country pillar Activity Readness indicators %age achieved

20 Lead agency and coordination 20 Road Safety 20 National strategy coordination

management 20 Realistic and long term targets capacity 20 Fundng for activities

20 Safety Support systems

20 Safer Roads 25 Road Safety Ownership and Networks 25 Safe operation of existing Network

25 Safer new roads and networks 25 Research and knowledge transfer

20 Min veh safety standards 20 Vehicle 15 NCAP implementation

Safety 20 Seat Belt and Restraints

Country x 15 Crash Avoidance technlogy 15 Fiscal Measures 15 Research and Development

10 Road safety risk factors 15 Speed management 15 Drink Driving

20 Road user 15 Helmets

Behaviour 15 Seatbelts and Restraints 10 Commercial vehicles 10 Enforcement campaigns publicity 10 Road safety management

25 Pre hospital care 20 Post crash 30 Care in transit

care 25 Hospital trauma care 20 Rehabilitation

Objective: Implementation of systems, strategies and activities based on the World report on road

safety injury and the UN Collaboration good practice guidelines to improve road safety country wide

Figure C1 National level activities (overview)

Illustration of benchmarking and monitoring

Activity Readiness indicators %age achieved

10 Good practice guidelines on safety management in use 10 Lead agency for road safety established 10 Senior and active politician made responsible for road safety

20 Lead 10 National road safety council (NRSC) or similar body established Agency and 10 All key government stakeholders actively participating in NRSCCoordination 10 Private sector and NGOs represented and active on NRSC

10 Permanent NRSC secretariat established to suppport NRSC activities 10 NRSC secretariat has adequate technical and funding resources 10 NRSC decisions based on crash data analyses and being implemented 5 Effective horizontal and vertical coordination occuring 5 Road Safety programs being implemented at national and local level

Regional databases,monitoring and reporting

� Select key items from UN ECE, UN ESCAP and UN ECA databases to identify 25-30 core items to be collected ( eg annual road deaths and injuries, percentage pedestrian deaths , etc ) by all un regional commissions for their member countries

� Minimise data items to increase chances of countries providing data annually

� 6 monthly assessment by sub regions of development progress in each country ( if necessary by just estimating ) so that results can be sent to regional commission

� Regions consolidate results from their sub regions and pass on to ECE In Geneva who combine it with data from who /FIA and otherorchestration activities for inclusion into the overall global framework

� WHO and ECE ( on behalf of other regional commissions produces an annual report indicating progress in implementing the decade ofaction road safety Action plan

The Proposed Approach A 3-Stage Process

BenchmarkingBenchmarking(How good are my services?)(How good are my services?)

Action PlanningAction Planning(What should I do, how can I measure it?)(What should I do, how can I measure it?)

Desired Desired ImpactOutputs Responses Indicators

MonitoringMonitoring(Planned (Planned vsvs Actual progress?)Actual progress?)

Snapshot –country 3

Benchmarking and comparisons

Spider chart comparisons -Strengths and weaknesses

Example of Strategic Management using DEE Frameworks during Implementation of a Project

Colour coded overview of framework shows Colour coded overview of framework shows areas of project ahead (blue ) or behind (red) areas of project ahead (blue ) or behind (red)

schedule enabling managers to focus on areas schedule enabling managers to focus on areas of greatest need /urgencyof greatest need /urgency

Simple graphs allow monitoring and Simple graphs allow monitoring and easy tracking of progress throughout easy tracking of progress throughout the different levels to identify areas the different levels to identify areas

of technical or organisational of technical or organisational underperformance underperformance

The Way Ahead –BSEC Sub region ?

� Learn lessons from other sub regions, in particular the EU. Scaling up as suggested saves time , resources and uses local expertise

� Benchmark current activities to identify strengths and weaknesses � Share knowledge /expertise amongst BSEC members � Develop individual country specific Action plans and casualty

reduction targets ( with first 3 year phase focussing on institutional strengthening to get “ready” )

� Develop a sub regional strategy and sub regional targets based on aggregation of individual action plans and targets

� Present and discuss progress towards sub regional targets at theappropriate bodies of BSEC considering also those at Minister levelto provide political momentum

� Consider establishing a multi sector , multi country road safety working group to harmonise legislation and activities across the region

Thank You !

Dr Alan Ross

alanross999@gmail.com

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