LEARN

Improving road safety is a key development priority for Africa. Despite comparatively low motorisation levels, the continent witnesses the world’s highest rate of road traffic fatalities, with approximately 26.6 deaths per 100,000 people (WHO 2018). The importance of and the need for better road safety data have been highlighted at the United Nations, African Union and other multilateral platforms. The latest Road Safety Resolution, approved by the UN General Assembly in April 2018, specifically recognises the importance of capacity-building in this field. In recent discussions surrounding the creation of an African Road Safety Observatory, African governments further recognised that coordinated efforts are necessary to address the significant need for better data.

LEARN is a joint initiative of the International Road Federation and the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety. This joint effort aims to enhance the data knowledge, skills, and actions of a selected group of road safety professionals and stakeholders via a hands-on, real-time and contextual capacity development process in African countries. Phase 1 of the project was made possible thanks to the support of the FIA Road Safety Grant Programme and Phase 2 is generously supported by the TotalEnergies Foundation.

After the pilot countries Kenya and Senegal, over the past months, the LEARN Project has also been introduced in Uganda, Cameroon, Zambia and Tanzania through an interactive data workshop built around the specific needs of each country and during which the multi-sectoral coalitions are formed. In the case of Uganda, for example, the coalition is looking into ways to improve overall the crash data collection processes in the country.

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