TY - JOUR
T1 - Monitoring the Decade of Action for Global Road Safety 2011–2020
T2 - An update
AU - Hyder, Adnan A.
AU - Paichadze, Nino
AU - Toroyan, Tamitza
AU - Peden, Margaret M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The Global Status Reports on road safety are funded through a grant from the Bloomberg Philanthropies. This paper is based on the work of the Working Group on Monitoring and Evaluation of the UNRSC chaired by Professor A. Hyder and co-chaired by Dr M. Peden. We wish to thank the UNRSC and WHO for their help in manuscript preparation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/12/2
Y1 - 2017/12/2
N2 - The United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) was set up in 2004 in response to the recognised need for the United Nations (UN) system to encourage efforts to address the global road safety crisis. In 2010, the UN General Assembly Resolution 64/255 declared 2011–2020 the Decade of Action for Road Safety with the overarching goal of stabilising and reducing the forecasted number of road traffic deaths by increasing activities at national, regional and global levels. In 2011, a Plan of Action for the Decade of Action, a tool to support the development of national and local plans of action, was launched. Countries are encouraged to implement activities according to the five pillars set out by the Plan of Action. The UNRSC, tasked to evaluate the overall impact of the Decade, developed and populated indicators for each pillar. Currently, 36 of 38 proposed indicators are populated by baseline data for 2010 from the second Global status report for road safety. However, gaps exist in data quality and availability on a global level. Therefore, there is an urgent need for improving data quality and availability to measure the progress of the Decade of Action.
AB - The United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) was set up in 2004 in response to the recognised need for the United Nations (UN) system to encourage efforts to address the global road safety crisis. In 2010, the UN General Assembly Resolution 64/255 declared 2011–2020 the Decade of Action for Road Safety with the overarching goal of stabilising and reducing the forecasted number of road traffic deaths by increasing activities at national, regional and global levels. In 2011, a Plan of Action for the Decade of Action, a tool to support the development of national and local plans of action, was launched. Countries are encouraged to implement activities according to the five pillars set out by the Plan of Action. The UNRSC, tasked to evaluate the overall impact of the Decade, developed and populated indicators for each pillar. Currently, 36 of 38 proposed indicators are populated by baseline data for 2010 from the second Global status report for road safety. However, gaps exist in data quality and availability on a global level. Therefore, there is an urgent need for improving data quality and availability to measure the progress of the Decade of Action.
KW - United Nations
KW - indicators
KW - injuries
KW - monitoring and evaluation
KW - road traffic
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U2 - 10.1080/17441692.2016.1169306
DO - 10.1080/17441692.2016.1169306
M3 - Article
C2 - 27109427
AN - SCOPUS:84964479136
SN - 1744-1692
VL - 12
SP - 1492
EP - 1505
JO - Global public health
JF - Global public health
IS - 12
ER -