Preparing for the Global Ministerial Conference

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Preparing for the Global Ministerial
Conference Presentation by David Ward, Director
General, FIA Foundation Road Safety,
Ibero-America and the Caribbean Madrid 24th
February 2009
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• World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention
• (WHO/World Bank 2004)
• Warns that 1.2 million deaths and 50 million
• injuries occur annually on the road, mainly
• affecting vulnerable road users, and will more
• than double by 2020.
• Shows that low and middle income countries
  account for
• 90 of global deaths from road traffic crashes.
• Identifies key injury risk factors (non use of
  seat belts, helmets,
• excessive speed, drink driving, and poor road
  infrastructure)
• Calls for greater international effort to reverse
  trend of rising RTIs
• Recommends national prevention strategies based
  on a lead agency
• responsible for developing a multi-sectoral
  safe systems approach.

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• The Safety Systems Approach
• Three components in a dynamic
• system
• The road user
• The motor vehicle
• The road infrastructure
• Rather than blaming the victim for causing
  crashes, the risk of human error
• is anticipated and tolerated by a forgiving
  system that has been designed to
• ensure that the consequences of human error are
  non fatal as far as possible.
• The design challenge is to manage loss of control
  of kinetic energy within
• tolerances survivable by the human body.

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DALYS in Developing Countries (Children Age
5-14) (DALYS Disability Adjusted Life Years)
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Twelve Leading Causes of Mortality, 2002
Rank Deaths Cause Proportion of total ()
1 Ischaemic heart disease 12.6
2 Cerebrovascular disease 9.7
3 Lower respiratory infections 6.9
4 HIV/AIDS 4.8
5 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 4.8
6 Perinatal conditions 4.3
7 Diarrhoeal diseases 3.3
8 Tuberculosis 2.7
9 Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers 2.2
10 Road traffic injuries 2.1
11 Diabetes mellitus 1.7
12 Malaria 1.6
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International Action on Malaria

• Abuja Action Plan 2000
• UN Decade to Roll Back Malaria 2001-2010
• Global Fund launched by G8 and
• US 2.8 billion funding approved to date.
• UN Special Envoy for Malaria

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• About the Commission
• An independent High Level Commission under the
  Chairmanship of the former NATO Secretary General
  Lord Robertson with a member from each of the G8
  countries and all major world regions
• Supported by an expert advisory group including
  representatives from the WHO, World Bank, OECD,
  UNECE and NGOs
• Funded by the FIA Foundation a UK registered
  charity established to promote road safety, the
  environment and sustainable mobility

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Make Roads Safe Report Key Recommendations

• A 300 million, 10 year Action Plan to
• promote multi-sector national road safety
• capacity building in low and middle income
• countries should be funded by donor governments
  and private sources
• and managed by the World Bank Global Road Safety
  Facility
• At a minimum 10 of all road infrastructure
  projects should be committed
• to road safety design, rating and assessment and
  community wide initiatives
• A Ministerial Conference on Global Road Safety
  should be held in 2009 to
• review implementation of the World Report
  recommendations

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Launch of Make Road Safe campaign The Make
Roads Safe campaign is launched to obtain over 1
million signatures to be presented to the UN
Secretary General in 2008. The petition campaign
is launched by Michael Schumacher during the
first UN Global Road Safety Week in April 2007.
Campaign events are held in London, Geneva,
Berlin, Cape Town, Paris, St Petersburg, Kampala,
and New York. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is joined
by President Oscar Arias, and former President
Jimmy Carter as three Nobel prize winners backing
the campaign. Other supporters include the
former Irish President Mary Robinson, Tony
Blair, musicians, Sports stars and the film
actress Michelle Yeoh.
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Russian Federation Offers to Host UN Ministerial
in Moscow Russia has the worst road safety
performance of the G8. Their fatality rate per
100,000 is 240 (UKs rate is 50). Road safety is
now a major domestic policy priority led by the
Interior Ministry. In 2006 Lord Robertson
visited Moscow and meet with Vice Premier
Alexander Zhukov. After further discussions with
General Viktor Kiryanov (Head of Road Safety
Inspectorate) and Ambassador to UK Yuri Fedotov
in September 2007 the Russian Federation offered
to host the proposed UN Ministerial in Moscow in
November 2009.
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UN General Assembly Approves First Ever
Ministerial Conference on Road Safety In March
2008 the UN General Assembly debates road safety
and Resolution 62/244 drafted by the Sultanate of
Oman is unanimously approved which welcomes the
offer by the Russian Federation to host the
first high level (ministerial) conference on
road safety. The Russian Federation
confirms Moscow will be the venue and 19-20
November 2009 as the provisional date. The Make
Roads Safe petition target is reached and
presented to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon by
Lord Robertson, Michelle Yeoh, Karla Gonzalez.
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First Global Ministerial Conference on Road
Safety Time for Action Agenda and Opportunities
Review the implementation of the World Report
and the road safety activities of the UN Regional
Commissions, WHO, World Bank etc. Agree on
common definitions for key road safety related
data, identify best practice on key risk factors,
and support the concept of forgiving roads etc.
Review the work of the UN World Forum for
Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations and the role
of the 1949/1968 UN Road Traffic
Conventions. Agree to a Decade of Action for
Road Safety 2010-2020 with the goal of reducing
the forecast level of fatalities by 50 by 2020.

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• OECD International Transport Forum
• Towards Zero Ambitious Road Safety
• Targets the Safe System Approach
• Key Recommendations
• Adopt a highly ambitious vision for road safety
• Set interim targets to move systematically
  towards the vision
• Develop a safe system approach
• Exploit proven interventions for early gains
• Conduct data collection and analysis
• Strengthen the road safety management system
• Accelerate knowledge transfer
• Invest in road safety
• Foster commitment at highest levels of government

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• Road Safety Targets
• Regional casualty reduction targets include
• European Union and European Conference of
  Ministers of Transport to reduce fatalities by
  50 by 2010 and 2012 respectively
• UNESCAP (Asia Pacific) Ministers agreed to cut
  deaths by 600,000 by 2015
• UNECA (Africa) Ministers of Health Transport
  agreed to reduce road fatalities by 50 by 2015

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Global Road Safety Action Plan
The Action Plan to be implemented on two levels
Global and regional supporting
UN coordination, professional capacity
of regional organisations, exchange of good
practice, and adoption of regional injury
prevention targets Country level supporting
assessment and research, institutional
capacity building, demonstration projects,
and post crash interventions.
Global/Regional Activity 30 million
Assessment Research 30 million
Institutional Capacity 105 million
Demonstration Projects 90 million
Post Crash 45 million
Total 300 million
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• Road to Moscow Next Steps
• Rome Conference 5th May
• Launch of the second Make Roads Safe report at a
  major conference in Rome on 5th May 2009 linked
  to the Italian Presidency of the G8
• Launch of the Make Roads Safe documentary film
  with Michelle Yeoh which features visits to Asia,
  Africa and Latin America and will highlight the
  key messages of the Commissions reports.
• Focus the Make Roads Safe campaign on the theme
  of a decade of action to achieve a 50 reduction
  in forecast fatalities by 2020.

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• Agenda for Moscow
• Make 2010-2020 A Decade of
• Action for Road Safety
• Support an action plan of 300 million to invest
  in capacity building in road injury prevention...
  
• Invest in safer roads by committing at least 10
  of project finance to safe road assessment and
  design.
• Agree a global target to reduce road fatalities
  by 50 from their forecast level for 2020.
• Thank You !