Country Guidelines for the Conduct of Road Safety Management Capacity Reviews and the Specification of Lead Agency Reforms, Investment Strategies and Safe System Projects

Implementing the Recommendations of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention
Tony Bliss • Jeanne Breen
World Bank Global Road Safety Facility
June 2009

In support of the World Report, several documents have been published recently. The Country guidelines for the conduct of road safety management capacity reviews published by the World Bank goes through each of the above recommendations and provides detailed advice for how to take them forward. It also suggest a specific management system also based on the safe systems principles and focusing on results.

The road safety management system is suggested divided in 3 areas:

• Results (social cost, final outcomes, intermediate outcomes and outputs)
• Interventions focusing on the road network (planning/design/operation, vehicles/drivers, recovery/rehabilitation of crash victims)
• Institutional Management Functions (coordination, legislation, funding and resource allocation, monitoring and evaluation, and research/development and knowledge transfer)

The Country guidelines furthermore explain how management capacity can be build by using the road safety management system in the different stages of appraisal and implementation. Supporting tables and questionnaires are given to help assess the situation and provide assistance in identifying Safe System implementation projects strengthening the overall management system too.

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