About African RSO

The African Road Safety Observatory is a space for interaction to highlight the relevant road safety needs in African countries.

Based on the United Nation’s (UN’s) “2011-2020 a Decade of Action for Road Safety”, the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) defined the African Road Safety Action Plan 2011-2020. In 2015, UNECA conducted a Mid-term Review of the Action Plan to assess the progress made by each country. The output of this review is constituted in the Roadmap for Accelerating the Implementation of the African Road Safety Action Plan.

The mission of the African Road Safety Observatory is to:

• Provide a tool for African citizens to highlight the relevant road safety needs, emerging road safety issues in a country and to make a proposal of measures or policies to enhance road safety;
• Monitor the existing strategies and implemented road safety policies in African countries;
• Provide a space for interaction with stakeholder and networking of relevant actors;
• Collect road safety data from various national and international (WHO, IRF) sources;
• Present the road safety situation and trends at national, regional and continental level through the use of text, graphs, tables and maps;
• Analyse data and provide recommendations to improve road safety in Africa;
• Promote road safety good practices to policy makers supported by proven efficacy and transferability assessment.