GSRRS1 |

Global Status Report on Road SafetyGlobal Status Report on Road Safety

GSRRS2 |

Objectives

• to assess the status of road safety in all Member States

– using comparable methodology and measures

– Defining and measuring a core set of essential road safety indicators and report on their implementation on a regular basis

• to indicate the gaps in road safety nationally, and the key priorities for intervention

GSRRS3 |

MethodologyGlobal coordination

Regional Data Coordinators in 6 WHO regions

National Data Coordinator in each member state

Group of 6-8 respondents comprising a multi-sectoral group – different ministries, institutions, NGOs

National consensus meeting

Global Status Report

1 national dataset

GSRRS4 |

Recommendations of the World report on road traffic injury prevention

1. Identify a lead agency in government to guide the national road traffic safety effort

2. Assess the problem, policies and institutional settings relating to road traffic injury and the capacity for road traffic injury prevention in each country

3. Prepare a national road safety strategy and plan of action 4. Allocate financial and human resources to address the problem5. Implement specific actions to prevent road traffic crashes, minimize

injuries and their consequences and evaluate the impact of these actions

6. Support the development of national capacity and international cooperation

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Data collection categories

• Institutional framework (lead agency, national strategy, funding, data systems)

• Data (fatal, non fatal, age and road user breakdown, economic costs)

• Interventions– Reducing exposure to risk

• Policies on walking/cycling, public transport• Infrastructure and vehicle standards

– Implementation of interventions around key risk factors • Speed control (legislation, enforcement)• Drink-driving reduction• Increasing use of helmets: • Increasing use of seat-belts and child restraints• Delivering post crash care

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Global summary – as of 1 Oct 08Region Countries

in region[1]

No. countries

who agreed to participat

e

Member States who declined to participate

Data collected

Countries delayed (D) or

no longer participating

(NLP)

Data entered

Sent for clearance

Data cleared

AFRO 46 44 Equatorial Guinea, Guinea

Conakry

38 Algeria (D) Madagascar (D); Cote D'Ivoire (NLP), Gabon (NLP)

30 30 12

AMRO/PAHO

35 MS + Puerto Rico*

32 Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada

32 Virgin Islands,Haiti,

St Kitts and Nevis

32 24 15

EMRO 21 MS plus OPT**

20 Dijbouti, Somalia

19 Afghanistan 19 3 0

EURO 53 49 Andorra, Luxembourg

, Monaco

49 Denmark 48 48 24

SEARO 11 10 DPR Korea 10 10 10 10

WPRO 27 MS + Tokelau*

26 Tokelau* 26 Niue (NLP) 26 12 4

TOTALS

196 180 174 165 127 65

GSRRS7 |

+ / - aspects of the methodologyNegative• Self reported data• Subjectivity and sensitivity reporting on some variables• Different definitions used• Data provided is for different years• Underreporting • Trend and age data different, limited comparability for some

variables

Positive• First global survey to be conducted using comparable methodology• Excellent response rate• Multi-sectoral approach used within countries

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Next steps

• Draft of main messages, country profiles and tables in progress

• Final report due to be published June/July 2009 in 6 UN lanauges

• 6 regional reports • Data on legislation available in searchable

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