Dialogue is the heart of the African RSO aimed at promoting a road safety culture, enabling sharing of good practices and setting up favorable conditions for their implementation.

What is the Dialogue Platform

The Dialogue Platform represents a high-level body aimed at:

• encouraging and facilitating a constructive engagement and dialogue of citizens, policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders on road safety in Africa.
• producing knowledge to influence road safety funding, policies and interventions in Africa

The DP is structured by a decision-making level comprising a Management Board of prominent institutions like the African Union, the United Nations and development banks and a technical/operational level comprising government institutions (both European and African), international institutions, research institutions (both European and African) and representative organisations of African stakeholders.

These two levels are closely interconnected to foster the appropriate match between African road safety policy evolution, application, knowledge enhancement and institutional delivery capacity.

Additionally, a Platform Secretary is in charge of coordinating all the activities and the interactions between different levels.

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The Management Board

The Management Board comprises representatives of existing institutions and competent authorities at the country and continent levels tackling regulatory, financing and planning issues in the different fields involved in road safety. The actors belonging to this level include: the African Union, economic and financial institutions (e.g. African Regional Economic Communities), multilateral development banks and other relevant international organisations working in the African continent. At this level, the evidence stemming from the work done on the Technical level is discussed. Decisions will be made on specific initiatives (selected through value-for-money assessments), whose funding structures will be set up through commitments from development banks or the EC. The initiatives include projects or partnerships (e.g. Twinning Programs) between African and EU partners on issues related to the building blocks. Furthermore, policy recommendations to ensure the achievement of the Action Plan objectives are formulated. Then, the implementation of these initiatives will be entrusted to the Technical level of the Platform.

At this stage, commitments from the governments of single countries will be facilitated through support from other stakeholders (e.g. international community, private sector and NGOs).

The Stakeholder group

The Stakeholders Group is envisaged as consultative project body to strengthen the compliance of the project with the needs of the society. It is composed by external partners constituted by African public bodies, International research institutions and NGOs. It will contribute to the technical activities releasing advices on specific local issues, supporting data collection as well as the identification of good practices and knowledge sharing activities.

A consultation includes activities such as prioritizing road safety needs, providing opinions on road safety strategies, providing road safety data, participating to on-line survey via a web-based tool.

Administration

The Dialogue Platform Secretary is responsible for organizing and administering the work of the Management Board (MB) and the Stakeholders Group (SG). This includes, among the other: contacting potential members of MB as well as of the SG, informing the members about oncoming consultations, organizing and attending the MB meetings.