UN Decade of Action on Road Safety 

The UN  Decade of Action on road safety began in May 2011.  All countries are being encouraged to develop and implement road safety action plans to try to reduce road deaths as part of their contribution to the Global efforts to reduce road deaths by 50% by 2020.  Many countries are struggling  to know where to start in addressing this multi-sector, multi-agency problem.   In order to assist them in identifying what they need to do to strengthen their organisations and systems to permit more effective road safety activity, the UN,  through the UN Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC), has developed and published a UN Decade of Action Road Safety Action Plan built upon five pillars of activity.  Countries are encouraged to develop country, province or even city or comunity-specific road safety action plans  based on these five pillars so that road safety can be improved systematically.

 A FREE OFFER ****** AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHECK COMPLIANCE WITH UN DECADE OF ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS AND TO DEVELOP A ROAD SAFETY ACTION PLAN *******

In order to encourage and assist national and local institutions to develop effective road safety action plans which are compatable with the UN Guidance, this website is offering a FREE facility to do an assessment of institutional readiness for carrying out effective road safety improvement activities.   National and local authorites may download  an assessment  template based on the UN Decade of Action recommendations and easily assess themselves against the benchmark road safety-related activities and practices that  a "good" authority should be carrying out in order to deliver to deliver the casualty reduction target of  a 50% reduction in deaths on the roads by 2020.

Once the assessment of readiness is done, any areas of particular weakness can be identified and activities can be planned to develop a suitable institution-strengthening road safety improvement action plan.  The DEE software will also allow users to monitor the implementation of these action plans while the conditions are being established for further effective road safety work.  The initial benchmarking, development of the resulting UN Decade of Action compliant road safety action plan and its subsequent monitoring during implementation for a three-year period is offered totally free of charge to all low and medium income countries seeking to improve their ability to improve their road safety. 

If users wish to have a UN  template in their own language, please go to the UN DECADE FREE FACILITY.   In step1, users may download various documents, and item 3 is a table based on the UN Decade of Action template.  Please download that and then simply translate and enter text in your language in the spaces shown on the document.  Then return the completed document to the e-mail address given so that we can put your local language version of the template on the website for other provinces municipalities and communities from your country to use in preparing their own UN Decade of Action plans.