Action and accountability for safer roads
With six months to go until the?4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety?(Ministerial Conference) in Morocco,?NGOs?are gearing up to?leverage?this opportunity?for advocacy and accountability.
The Alliance’s?Call to Action?sets out three key demands?to achieve the 2030?road safety?targets: implement interventions that have been proven to reduce road deaths and injuries, transparent and accountable funding to make mobility safe, and involvement of NGOs—who are the eyes, ears, and voices of communities—in decision making.The Ministerial Conference?is?a?milestone?to?galvanize?governments into?evidence-based action?and investment.
NGOs are already pushing for SMART commitments through their day-to-day advocacy, many of them using the #CommitToAct Mobility Snapshots. The Ministerial Conference can?spur on stronger, further reaching ones. Crucially, when the conference finishes and Ministers return to their countries, NGOs are there, equipped with the?Accountability Toolkit,?to remind them of the commitments they have made and to keep them accountable for resourcing and implementing them.?
These next months in the run up to the?Ministerial Conference are important. What happens during and afterwards is life-or-death for 1.19 million people a year.
#Damages (Deaths, Injuries, Traumas, loss of properties) due to the #Road #Crashes be declared as #PANDEMIC, #globally! Such Pandemic be treated urgently, with the proven highly effective evidence base interventions (#Pillars as #Vaccines and #Boosters). Like #Covid-19, #Timely #Actions must be undertaken with #political #wills, with allocation of #adequate #funds, knowledge transfer and by the #Genuinely #Qualified (Minimum Graduates), #Skilled, #Trained and #Experienced #Professionals, exclusively and explicitly in #Road #Safety! 13 million fatalities of road users, and over 500 million injuries, globally in the last decade, #WHO 1.5 million fatalities in India in the last decade, #NCRB-India! Record 89,000 fatalities of road users, in the USA in 2021 and 2022! Record 171,100 fatalities of road users, in India in 2022, so on #Significant increases elsewhere too and #continuing!! Majority of the victims had been the Breadwinners, male, in the age Group of 15 years to 64 years. Up to 30% additional #burdens on the concerned Stakeholders, road users, health, law and order, Insurance, legal, and repair and maintenance professionals. Badly missed and neglected so far, globally. NOT ACCEPTABLE, NOT SUSTAINABLE! Huge shortage