Road Safety Program in SEA Standard Presentation

1. Road Safety Program in SEA Standard Presentation

2. Road SafetyWorldwide Context Road traffic injuries are a huge public health and development issue • More than 3,000 people die and 15,000 are disabled for life every day* • Second leading cause of death globally among young people aged 5 to 29* • 90% of dead related to road traffic accidents occur in developing countries* • Asia–Pacific region: • Contributes up to 44% of global road deaths, although it only has 16% of the world’s motorized vehicle fleet** • Very high proportion of 2-wheeled vehicles, important traffic mix, poor institutions and further rapid motorization • Huge economic losses (between 1 and 3 % of GDP) • * Source: World report on road traffic injury prevention, WHO, Geneva, April 2004 • ** Source: Estimating Global Road Fatalities ,TRL report 445 , Crowthorne, 2000. 2

3. 1. Road Safety Regional context Laos and Cambodia traffic fatality rates are twice higher than the ASEAN average Source: Fourth ADB/ASEAN Regional Road Safety Workshop, May 2004, Malaysia Notice: When calculated in comparison with the population (number of fatalities/100,000 persons), the fatality rate in Cambodia is in the ASEAN average.

4. Evolution of road traffic accident and casualties (base 100 = 1995) 1. Road Safety Cambodian Context • Every day, 3 persons die and more than 100 are injured • Cambodia is at the bottom of its motorization curve and exponential growth can be expected for the forthcoming years • Road traffic accidents, casualties and fatalities increase more proportionally than road traffic and population. • Over the last five years, the number of fatalities has doubled. • The road network is rapidly improving, allowing speed increases. • The total economic loss of road traffic accidents is estimated at 116 million US$ annually (ADB). • Sources: • Population: First Revision of Population Projections for Cambodia 1998 -2020, National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, June 2004; • Traffic and accident figures: Ministry of Public Works and Transport.

5. 1. Road Safety Cambodian context RTAs’ impact on public health is huge and has not yet received the necessary attention from the Government and the international community compared to other issues such as mines/UXOs and AIDS Source: RTAVS and CMVIS report, HIB analysis Notice: for readability purposes, figures are rounded up.

6. 1. Road Safety Cambodian context RTAs’ impact on public health is huge and has not yet received the necessary attention from the Government and the international community compared to other issues such as mines/UXOs and AIDS Source: RTAVS and CMVIS report, HIB analysis Notice: for readability purposes, figures are rounded up.

7. 2. HIB Road Safety Program in SEA Cambodia Laos Vietnam Data Collection Education Encouragement Primary Prevention Engineering Enforcement Victim Assistance Coordination/ Capacity building Advocacy

8. 3. Cambodia Road Safety ProgramOverview • Establishing the mechanism of the national road safety committee • Road Traffic Accident and Victim Information System (RTAVIS) and Research • Road safety school curriculum development and implementation • Road safety public awareness campaigns • Partnerships with private and non-governmental organizations • Emergency assistance to traffic victims

9. 3. Cambodia Road Safety ProgramOverview

10. 3. Cambodia Road Safety ProgramOverview –Current situation Legend All RS activities RS education RTAVIS

11. 3. Cambodia Road Safety Program1. Establishing the mechanism of NRSC Assist the National Road Safety Committee to be actively coordinating the National Road Safety Action Plan • Regularly update and monitor the implementation of the National Road Safety Action Plan (NRSAP) • Organize an annual meeting of the National Road Safety Committee (NRSC) every year • Advice selected provincial and municipal road safety committees

12. 3. Cambodia Road Safety Program2. RTAVIS Provide road safety related stakeholders with accurate and complete data on road traffic accidents and victims • Permanent database integrating data from various sources (trained staff at hospitals, private clinics and traffic police) through out the country • Reports distributed monthly mainly via email • Annual report providing recommendations for road safety stakeholders • Research on specific topics (e.g. motodop drivers,young drivers behavior,…) • Traffic police training on the use of GPS • Key staffs training within the GSNRSC to progressively manage the database.

13. 3. Cambodia Road Safety Program3. Road Safety Education Improve primary and lower secondary school children’s road safety behaviors by providing them with an effective road safety education curriculum • Grades 1 to 6 • Development of the curriculum for elementary; • Integration of the curriculum in the formal school curriculum, in collaboration with MoEYS • Full implementation in Phnom Penh, and pilot test in 3 provinces in 2005, • Extension in all the provinces; • Grades 7 to 12 • Development of the curriculum; • Integration of the curriculum in the formal school curriculum; • Implementation in Phnom Penh and other provinces.

14. 3. Cambodia Road Safety Program4. Road safety public campaign Enhance public awareness on particular issues of road safety by setting-up mass media campaigns and targeted awareness initiatives. • Mass media campaigns (TV and radio spots, posters, banners, leaflets, stickers, newspapers articles…) • Regular events, e.g.: • Press conference during World Health Day (7th of April) • Helmet Distribution Ceremony to 1,500 children at the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh (8th of December) in presence of His Majesty King Sihamoni • Water Festival stand • Khmer New Year campaign • Awareness events in universities and schools.

15. 3. Cambodia Road Safety Program5. Partnership with private and NGOs Increase the involvement and capacity of the civil society in improving road safety • Management and further development the road safety network (RSN) • Coordination of actions of local NGOs in road safety. • Identification and training road safety ambassadors (along major national roads) • Development and distribution of standardized road safety education and awareness material to those ambassadors • Organization of road safety workshops and support to the development of a road safety action plan for each village

16. 3. Cambodia Road Safety Program6. Emergency Assistance Improve the capacity of the traffic police in providing first aid response to traffic casualties and to refer them to adequate health structures • Elaborating the guidelines on first aid for traffic polices • Training for selected traffic police officers in each province; • Follow up and lobby the Ministry of Health for greater emergency assistance services

17. 3. Cambodia Road Safety Program7. Tangible results achieved since the beginning • RTAVIS covers the whole country and its data are widely used by road safety actors and media; • The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports has approved the national road safety curriculum and more than 160,000 children in Phnom Penh are already being trained on road safety; • Helmet wearing rate has more than doubled in the country in 1.5 years (from 7.5 to more than 15%); • The Council of Ministers has approved a new land traffic law which will help to considerably improve the road safety situation; • A National Road Safety Committee has been created. On top of this, regular evaluations of the projects have been performed and have shown very positive results. For example: • More than 70% of villagers interviewed along National Road 5 have seen helmet wearing awareness campaigns on TV; • More than 60% of the children that received road safety education got a score higher then 7/10 on a road safety test at the end of the year.