Nation-wide Safety Network
This initiative outlines ways to helping communities improve their own ability to manage road-safety and Health issues by raising awareness and building Nation-wide capacity with local institutions in the transportation business.
The scope of Road Safety Initiative - Uganda is to increase training, awareness and responsible behaviour change to communities based on existing demands and activities at District levels.
Strategy of Road Safety Initiative - Uganda :
In order to build capacity at national and local levels, National capacity building is carried out through workshops and training while local capacity building is carried out through demonstration-projects in selected vulnerable community hot-spots from each region:
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Central,
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North,
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South,
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East and;
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West
Road Safety Initiative - Uganda | Objectives
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Increase training, awareness and responsible behavior change to all road users.
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To build capacity of the relevant national and local institution to improve their knowledge of managing risks arising from public roads.
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Undertake demonstration-projects in selected districts, training local authorities and institutions to build capacity on how to manage road safety based on the appeal approach.
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Provide the society with skills to be able to assess risks on public roads and apply it to keep them-selves safe.
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Raising the need for theory driving to all road-users; and
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Providing drivers and riders with the information required to comply with traffic laws....
Objectives | Activities:
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Setting up a steering committee for the project;
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Developing a detailed project plan of action with specific activities, specific budget, timeline and responsibilities;
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Planning together with the steering committees to ensure that the project criteria and actions proposed lead to improvements in reducing accidents and vulnerability;
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Identifying Government focal point in each of the selected districts to participate in the project;
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Assessing each District structures, policies, tools and practices related to Road Safety.
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Existing good practices will be the basis for suggestions and recommendations from the participants.
Implementation phase – Demonstration projects
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Identifying, together with the steering committee and government focal point, “hot spots” in each District to demonstrate the project through the Trans-Appeal implementation;
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Forming in each hot-spot local committees to participate in the demonstration project; ......
Evaluation
Evaluation is based on the following facts:
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Reduced National staticitics of casualitis as reported by the Traffic Police.
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Improve road-safety record at the global staticitics;
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Reduced Medical burden on the National budget;
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Increased public awareness of overall risks of road crashes and related prevention measures.