Global Road Safety Facility Leveraging Global Road Safety Successes Managed by What is GRSF? GRSF partners with: This booklet highlights a few examples of GRSF’s effective Established in 2006, the Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) • National governments and state/municipal agencies delivery of global road safety solutions. is a global multi-donor fund managed by the World Bank. •  World Bank teams in low- and middle-income countries Its mission is to help governments develop road safety involved in the transport and health sectors 4 management capacity and scale up road safety delivery GRSF & World Bank: A Partnership  ulti-lateral development banks • M in low- and middle-income countries. Delivering Global Road Safety Solutions •  International organizations such as the World Health Organization and the UN Regional Commissions, NGOs, What are the goals of GRSF? 7 the private sector and other relevant stakeholders GRSF provides funding, knowledge, policy guidance and Increasing Road Safety evidence-based technical assistance to leverage road safety in Argentina investments in transport and health operations. Its goals are aligned with the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011—2020, as well as with the new road safety targets included in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 8 GRSF and the Ibero-American Road Safety Observatory (OISEVI) In fiscal year 2015 (FY15), GRSF achieved a leveraging ratio of 1:39 (on average, each dollar of grant funding provided by GRSF resulted in $39 spent directly on road safety through World Bank project lending). GRSF will continue to fund and 9 Building Enforcement Capacity in Nigeria prioritize activities that have the potential for similar leveraging capacity of donor-aided funds. Funded projects include the following initiatives, among others: • Helping client countries build the institutional capacity to 10 ChinaRAP — Assessment and Rating of High-Risk Roads in China sustain road safety solutions and improve them over time • E ffectively using funding to leverage the large sums found in road safety investments • Guiding the most effective road safety investments 11 Road Safety Demonstration Corridor in Karnataka, India: Integrating Transport and Health 13 — Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety ­ Improving Safety on Urban Streets 2 P O ST Safe Safe Roads Speeds E NT & L E & Roadside Figure 1. The Safe System Approach starts with EM A G the basic assumption of human vulnerability at D A ER HUMAN MA N the center and moves outward to form the pillars SH I P O F TOLERANCE TO CRASH of safe system action, with the last line of defense being post-crash care FORCES Y ROA ET D SAF Safe Road User Safe CR RE Behaviour Vehicles AS CA H Success stories from GRSF engagement GRSF & World Bank: The following section highlights past and ongoing success stories A Partnership Delivering Global Road Safety Solutions and achievements, delivering sustainable life-saving improvements in road safety management and capacity-building in low- and middle-income countries. The publication of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention in 2004 gave recognition to the global epidemic of road traffic deaths and injuries and GRSF often engages in the early preparation stages of World Bank reinforced the need for strong support of road safety solutions in low- and projects. These examples highlight how GRSF can be involved middle-income countries. in any stage of a project’s implementation to help develop the Safe System in a client country, to achieve ambitious road safety In 2006, the World Bank established GRSF within the Transport unit because of its outcomes and to contribute to national road safety sustainability. relationship with developing countries’ ministries of finance, transport, health, interior and education — which all play important roles in improving road safety outcomes. Mainstreaming Road Safety Interventions One of GRSF’s most important accomplishments has been its effectiveness in mainstreaming road safety interventions within World Bank–funded projects and donor-funded operations. In FY06, the year in which GRSF was founded, World Bank lending for road safety was just $56 million. Ten years later, in FY15, road safety lending stands at $239 million, a 327% increase. With guidance from GRSF, the breadth of road safety activities — from adequate legislation to safer road design — continues to increase in low- and middle-income countries. While FY06 had just one Bank project with a road safety component that covered more than one of the five pillars of road safety, FY15 had 13 such projects. 4 5 Proportion of World Bank road projects with multi-sectorial road safety component (%) 83% 78% 70% 67% 68% 59% 50% 44% 40% 32% 25% Increasing Road Safety in Argentina 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 E G FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY RA E Objective AV Figure 2. Multi-sectorial road safety components initiated a pilot training/twinning arrangement between In 2010, with a GRSF grant and advisory support, the World Bank the Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo (ANSV) launched a $38.5 million road safety initiative in Argentina. The National Observatory and the Spanish Directorate objective was to reduce road traffic injuries, crashes and fatalities General of Traffic (DGT). $3.9 million by strengthening the institutional framework and management Achievements Training and Workshops capacity on selected pilot corridors. •  Strengthened Argentina’s institutional framework and Since its inception, GRSF has held trainings and workshops for in grant financing leveraged Three main components contributed to the development of management capacity for road safety, including the launch World Bank staff to better enable them to incorporate road safety a safe system in Argentina: $151 million in approved road of a National Driver Licensing and Infraction System and components into their projects. GRSF has also created a mandatory safety — related lending across nstitutional Capacity-Building: Provided support to the I the National Road Safety Observatory. road safety e-learning course that introduces World Bank staff to the 1 lead road safety agency with the goal of improving 35% the World Bank. 1:39 ratio fundamentals of road safety. By providing staff with case studies and A 35% reduction of road traffic response capacity in emergencies and post-crash care, as guidance, GRSF aims to support both the Pillars of Road Safety and the fatalities in selected pilot corridors well as strengthening traffic control and enforcement and Safe System approach to improving road safety. between FY2010 and FY2015. conducting communication, awareness and education campaigns. $850 million Through the involvement of GRSF, the World Bank transitioned from one-off interventions in road safety to sustainable multi-sectorial projects based on the Safe System approach. GRSF provides technical assistance, 2  emonstration Corridors and Incentive Fund Program: D Operated a “Safe Corridors” program to increase safety 12% A national 12% reduction in the road traffic death rate for every 100,000 inhabitants. of World Bank’s road safety on 458 kilometers of high-risk road network. In addition, infrastructure safety support, road safety management capacity reviews 50% lending was influenced by GRSF an incentive fund was established to implement and A national 50% reduction of deaths and advisory services to World Bank projects, staff and client countries to support develop road safety policies and practices in the per 10,000 vehicles from 2008—2014. maximally leverage GRSF funds. demonstration corridors. 3 R 36% With sustained additional funding, GRSF can scale up the technical  oad Safety Monitoring and Evaluation System Within the From 2011—2014, national seat belt operations of the World Bank, along with other multilateral development National Road Safety Observatory: Supported by a GRSF use increased by 36%, while national grant, this crash data system incorporates best practice motorcycle helmet rates increased from banks and international organizations, to increase road safety project guidelines using a peer-based mentoring program; it 39% to 62%. delivery, thus continuing to save lives and prevent serious injuries around the world. 6 7 Building Enforcement Capacity in Nigeria ChinaRAP — Assessment and Rating of High-Risk Roads in China Objective Achievements Objectives Achievements to date Since 2008, GSRF and the World Bank have supported the •  In 2011, the Nigerian Government increased funding for its With technical and funding support from GRSF, ChinaRAP •  With support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the World efforts of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Nigeria’s leading road safety component from $6 million to $20 million after became the first country-owned Road Assessment Program (RAP) Bank and the Asian Development Bank, ChinaRAP’s rating road safety management agency, in developing a road safety becoming convinced of the importance of life-saving road in any low- or middle-income country. The program is hosted systems and countermeasure plans are being incorporated component as part of the Nigerian Roads Development Project. safety measures on its highways. within the Research Institute of Highways (RIOH) as part of the into 14 different city and highway projects in China, totaling The newly redesigned and ongoing road safety component is Ministry of Transport, China. GRSF supported the Building the more than $1.5 billion in works. 30% focused on: reduction in road traffic fatalities on the China Road Assessment Program (ChinaRAP) in partnership with •  In 2013, the ChinaRAP team assisted in the AusRAP •  Development of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC): Abujua-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Corridor, the International Road Assessment Program (iRAP) to develop assessment of national roads in Australia. Includes training, capacity-building and vehicle and one of the highest-risk corridors in the and field test risk assessment models for application in China. •  In 2014, the team, with assistance from the World Bank, equipment procurements. country, from 2010—2013 (project corridor). undertook assessments in Yemen that will help shape a One of the primary outcomes of ChinaRAP was to integrate number of projects there, including the Second Rural 20% •  Safe Corridor Demonstration Programs: decrease in road traffic fatalities in local research into Road Assessment models for use in Access Project. Demonstrations are being conducted on five high-risk the Abuja Metropolis between 2010 China, including: •  The team is now leading road-attribute data collection road networks. This approach involves targeted interventions and 2014. •  The potential for the program to provide real-time risk for an innovative KiwiRAP project in New Zealand. around infrastructure safety improvements, road safety management, enforcement, education and awareness, and emergency services. 8% decrease in road fatalities, nationally, between 2012 and 2013. information to road users in the form of dynamic Star Rating linked with vehicle-activated signs that adjust according to traffic flows and weather conditions. In 2014, ChinaRAP was awarded the iRAP Asia-Pacific Star Performer, which recognizes its commitment to successfully 11% reduction of road traffic fatalities on •  Application of risk assessments on public transport corridors. support multiple road safety projects financed by the World project roads between 2010 and 2014. •  Application of risk assessment on expressways that feature Bank, the Asian Development Bank and local agencies. highly consistent design. •  Assessment of road infrastructure safety for electric bikes. •  Advanced data collection equipment, including automatic detection of road attributes such as lines, signs, curvature $1.5 billion government budget committed for adopting ChinaRAP and grade. recommendations in 12 cities & highway projects in China 8 9 Road Safety Demonstration Corridor in Karnataka, India: Establishment of the Ibero-American Road Safety Integrating Transport and Health Observatory Monitoring Program and Support (2011—2013) Objectives Injury Research Unit, worked to estimate the burden imposed Objective •  OISEVI provides annual reports that consolidate regional Karnataka, a state in south India, presented a unique by road injuries and deaths to serve as the baseline estimates GRSF, together with the World Bank, played an important role road safety data and holds annual training workshops opportunity for GRSF to collaborate on a road safety for two high-risk corridors. in establishing the Ibero-American Road Safety Observatory for national data collection teams. demonstration corridor program encompassing two World (OISEVI). The OISEVI is a regional road safety monitoring •  OISEVI has produced baseline data to analyze behavioral Bank–funded projects led by the transport and health sectors. Achievements to date program brought together by the international cooperation of changes in pilot countries, so they are better able to track The project is ongoing. • E  stablishment of a Road Traffic and Safety Agency housed the highest road safety authorities across Latin American and factors such as use of seat belts, distracted driving, use of within the Transport Department to strengthen institutional the Caribbean. The objective of this initiative was to share child restraints and drunk driving. Transport: The transport project focuses on infrastructure management capacity. relevant information about road safety indicators and best •  OISEVI has created guidelines detailing how to set up as well as police training and awareness programs. GRSF •  Demonstration corridor program established and endorsed practices in regards to policy making, planning and related both national and local road safety monitoring programs, as provided technical assistance and grant support of $233 through the state government as an effective opportunity topics in order to develop better monitoring and make well as training workshops for regional media and a website thousand, which leveraged a $14 million component in the loan to coordinate across stakeholder departments and undertake evidence-based decisions for improving road safety. to host the observatory and database. project. This demonstrates a successful leveraging ratio of 1:60 targeted interventions to reduce road deaths. through GRSF funds for multi-sectorial interventions. The goals •  Improved road safety engineering and capacity-building with Achievements GRSF support influenced and made possible these initiatives, of the project are to improve safety on two high-risk corridors the Public Works Department ­ — aiming for a minimum iRAP OISEVI linked participating countries to the International Traffic with positive long-term results for road safety in the region. and to establish a multi-sectoral road safety agency 3-star rating for the upgraded infrastructure, a target goal Safety Data and Analysis Group’s International Road Traffic and in Karnataka’s Transport Department. that exhibits strong commitment from the client. Accident Database for Latin America and the Caribbean, which OISEVI website: www.oisevi.org/a/ •  Coordination with the health sector and local hospitals to offers resources on harmonized data collection methods. 22 Health: The health project concentrates on building capacity estimate reliably the number of deaths and injuries from •  Supported by GRSF, the OISEVI was scaled up to link 22 number of countries in the Latin American for emergency care systems and for estimating the baseline road crashes and the burden of disability on the state’s countries in the region to create the initial framework and and Caribbean region as part of the OISEVI burden of injuries related to road crashes. economy. web-based platform for the monitoring program. At the observatory. end of 2011, a regional road safety database, based on The iRAP star rating is a quantitative metric that evaluates the road safety risk assessment Supported by funds from GRSF and Bloomberg Philanthropies, *  the IRTAD model, was created. of a road section for individual categories of road users (vehicle occupants, motorcyclists, the World Bank, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins bicyclists and pedestrians). The rating is on a scale from one (most unsafe) to five (safest), University Bloomberg School of Public Health International and ratings of one and two stars are considered as high risk for serious and fatal injuries. 10 11 Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety — Improving Safety on Urban Streets Objectives Achievements to date GRSF’s partnership with the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative 2015 for Global Road Safety (2015—2019) aims to reduce road deaths In 2015, the first year of the initiative, and serious injuries in ten selected cities, all in low- and middle- iRAP assessments were piloted across income countries and to improve road safety legislation in five four cities (Addis Ababa, Ho Chi Minh selected countries. In this partnership, GRSF works alongside City, Mumbai and Sao Paulo) for a eight other global organizations supported by Bloomberg total survey length of 430 kilometers. Philanthropies. Those organizations include: The World Health GRSF will now work with each city to Organization, World Resources Institute, Global New Car make safety improvements to reduce Assessment Programme, Global Road Safety Partnership, Johns crashes, fatalities and injuries on the Hopkins University, National Association of City Transport surveyed roads. Officials, Vital Strategies and the Bloomberg Advocacy Incubator, plus their local and national counterparts. The primary objective of the initiative is to improve road safety 2016 In 2016, road assessment work has been initiated in Accra, Fortaleza, Bogota and Bangkok. in rapidly growing cities. Under the initiative, cities receive funding to support three full-time staff members embedded Leveraging infrastructure safety assessments with • in city agencies, comprehensive technical assistance from the ongoing World Bank loan projects in cities with collaborating organizations, training and capacity-building for committed funding (e.g., urban road projects enforcement agencies, and assistance in developing media in Addis Ababa and the Bus Rapid Transit [BRT] project and social awareness campaigns. in Ho Chi Minh City). GRSF’s role in the city-level initiative, with technical collaboration provided by the International Road Assessment Providing strategic guidance for the design of • Programme (iRAP), is to initiate and support the improvement high-risk sections of the urban corridor. This work of infrastructure safety management. The initiative focuses on is being done in collaboration with World Resources the following: Institute and National Association of City Transportation Officials. •  Develop local capacity and deliver training for sustainable implementation of infrastructure safety management. Developing local capacity among universities and • research institutions to undertake iRAP surveys •  Undertake assessments and quantitative ratings of and assessments. high-risk urban roads. Leverage related road safety investment in countries •  where a significant impact on lives saved can be achieved. Working with the World Resources Institute and the National Association of City Transportation (NACTO), GRSF complements its partners’ efforts in improving safer mobility in selected cities. 12 13 Other Examples of GRSF Success Road Infrastructure Safety Assessments Georgia — Capacity-Building and a New National Road GRSF financing assisted in the establishment and growth of the iRAP, now Safety Strategy commonly used as an international best practice in infrastructure safety GRSF guided the development of a Road Safety Strategy, a management- rating. Further, GRSF financing enabled the assessment of more than capacity review and the design of the Fourth East-West Highway project. 40,000 kilometers of high-risk roads in 13 countries. Analysis of 14,000 In 2015, a new Road Safety Strategy was drafted; because of GRSF kilometers showed the potential to avoid 280,000 deaths and serious guidance, most critical issues highlighted in the draft had already been injuries over a 20-year period. covered by the initial strategy, and several issues were addressed by the stakeholder agencies in advance of the final draft of the strategy. Brazil — State- and National-Level Capacity-Building GRSF and the World Bank have funded road safety management-capacity Colombia — New National Road Safety Lead Agency reviews across Brazil in the states of Bahia, Rio Grande du Sol, Sao Paulo GRSF funds directly influenced the creation of Colombia’s National Road and Minais Gerais. State-level capacity reviews have garnered increasing Safety Agency, which has been employing an investment strategy that state and federal government interest in road safety. This resulted in GRSF uses both traditional and innovative techniques­— including bringing funding the federal-level road safety management capacity review of Brazil, insurance companies and other sources of funding on board. This work the largest such review ever undertaken. Brazil has already announced has already leveraged an Inter-American Development Bank loan of $10 commitment to some key recommendations for improving road safety. million for the team setting up the operational structure of the new lead agency to implement a national road safety policy. China — The Jiaozuo Green Transport and Safety Improvement Project India — A Package of Multi-Sectoral Road Safety Projects The Government of China committed $112 million for road safety with The World Bank has several well-designed, multi-sectoral, safe system — interventions that build institutional management capacity, data collection, based road safety interventions underway in Karnataka, Gujarat, safe road infrastructure, road safety education campaigns, enforcement, Kerala, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and and capacity for post-crash and short- and long-term care. GRSF has both Rajasthan. GRSF has played an influential funding and advisory role in funded elements of this project and provided advisory services. several of these World Bank projects. Poland — Capacity-Building and a New National Road Kenya and Uganda — Africa Road Safety Corridors Initiative Safety Strategy A partnership between the World Bank and Total, a French energy A GRSF-funded road safety management-capacity review played a critical company, has resulted in the Africa Road Safety Corridors Initiative. role in decreasing the number of deaths on Poland’s roads (2011—2014), The initiative is a campaign aimed at increasing road safety awareness, leading to a 31% reduction in road fatalities. Poland has since sought changing behavior and reducing fatalities along Africa’s major transit technical assistance from GRSF funded by the government for further corridors and road networks. The first corridor being targeted by the assistance in developing data systems, road safety education programs campaign is the Mombasa Kampala Northern Corridor, which is East and road safety communication campaigns. Africa’s deadliest corridor. 14 15 There are many other success stories that were influenced or supported by GRSF funding and expertise. The ongoing work GRSF initiated in the last few years, as well as the launch of GRSF’s renewed 2016—2020 Work Program, will help achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for road safety. If fully funded, and thanks to the efforts of all of the teams and donor partners involved in GRSF, including Bloomberg Philanthropies, FIA Foundation, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the World Bank, and other funders who make this work possible, the next five years should offer more road safety success stories and greater sustainable outcomes and results across the world. For more information, please contact the following: Soames Job Sudanthi Hettiarachchi Global Lead Road Safety, Program Analyst, GRSF, World Bank, and Head GRSF shettiarachchi@worldbank.org sjob@worldbank.org Ramzi Tabbara Marc Shotten Consultant, GRSF, Program Manager, GRSF, rtabbara@worldbank.org mshotten@worldbank.org Global Road Safety Facility Dipan Bose www.worldbank.org/grsf Program Manager for Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety, GRSF, dbose@worldbank.org Argentina 1 Colombia Kazakhstan Mozambique Russia Tonga Armenia Egypt Kenya Nepal Samoa Tuvalu Bangladesh Ethiopia Kiribati Nigeria Serbia Uganda Bosnia- Federated States Malawi Papua New Sierra Leone Ukraine Herzegovina of Micronesia Mali Guinea Solomon Islands Uruguay Brazil2 Gambia Marshall Islands Paraguay South Africa Uzbekistan Bulgaria Georgia Mauritius Peru Sri Lanka Vanuatu Cambodia Ghana Mexico Philippines Tanzania Vietnam Cameroon India4 Montenegro Poland Thailand Yemen China3 Indonesia Morocco Romania Timor-Leste Zambia 1 Provinces: Sante Fe, Cordoba 2 Brazil State projects: Minais Gerais, Sao Paulo, Rio Grande de Sul 3 Provincial projects: Hubei, Anhui, Yunnan 4 State projects: Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh 16 17 18 19