African Road Safety Observatory / Observatorie Africain de la Sécurité Routière

African Road Safety Observatory presented by Mr. Benacer Boulajoul, Chair ARSO Transitional Steering Committee during the First ARSO General Assembly meeting in South Africa Durban, June 2019

7 representatives, including 1 Chair, 7 African countries + international partners

Name	Organization/Country
Benacer Boulaajoul (Chair)	Morocco
Sydney Ibeanusi	Nigeria
Duncan Kibogong	Kenya
Georges Anagonou	Benin
Mbamome Nkedong Divine	Cameroon
Ronald Amanyire	Uganda
Kevin Kara-Val	South Africa
Veronique Feypell	ITF
Veronica Raffo	World Bank
Maria Segui-Gomez	FIA
Jane Karonga	UN-ECA
Girma Bezabeh	African Development Bank
Tawia Ashong	SSATP
A. Placide C. Badji	African Union
Eugene D. Anoumou Dakitse-Benissan	Corridor Abidjan – Lagos Organization

 

Background

• March 2017, Ministerial Meeting, in Lomé
• Ministerial recommendation of the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and SSATP to develop a minimum set of road safety indicators
• 2018 Marrakech Declaration

1^st workshop Dakar, Senegal, February 2018  Resolution signed by government representatives from 7 countries: Morocco, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Benin, South Africa and Tanzania

2^nd Workshop Abuja, Nigeria, July 2018. 28 African countries participated

• Agreed on minimum crash-related variables
• Created three working groups and their Terms of Reference:
  • Transitional Steering Committee
  • Transitional Task Force on Governance
  • Transitional Task Force on Work Plan

3 ^rd workshop Marrakech, Morocco, November 2018 –  24 countries attended

Pursued the discussions initiated in Dakar and Abuja, to shape the way towards the establishment of a road safety observatory in Africa and reached decisions on:

• The governance options of the Observatory;
• The draft work programme for the period 2019-21
• Co-operation with main stakeholders (international organisations, NGOs, private sector, etc.)

Inserted a reference to ARSO in Marrakech Declaration issued after First African Forum on Road Safety

 

Programme of Work 2019-2021

6 pillars

1. Developing the network of the Observatory and its relationship with road safety stakeholders
2. Improving tools and methodologies for the collection of crash data and other safety-related data
3. Monitoring intermediate safety performance indicators
4. Creating and updating a common road safety database
5. Conducting analysis on topics of joint interest
6. Publication of periodical reports on road safety

 

Highlights of Work Programme 2019-2020

• First semester 2019, AU Ministerial conference
• EU—AU bilateral transport program
• WHO multicountry workshop on vital registration improvements (Tunis, April 2019)
• ESRA Data collection on attitudes and behaviours (first semester 2019)
• Conversations with EU-funded Safer Africa observatory (to finish Sept 2019)

 

Today´s 1st GA:  Objectives

• To launch Observatory
  • Celebrate 1st anual meeting of national road safety directors and national road safety data coordinators
• To engage countries to sign up by signing AU Charter
• To engage countries to ratify essential UN road safety coventions