Make Roads Safe

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Make Roads Safe Moscow and the Decade of
Action Saul Billingsley, Deputy Director, FIA
Foundation GRSP Asia, Singapore, 8 October 2009
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Commission for Global Road Safety
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A Hidden Epidemic Leading Global Causes of Death,
2004
WHO Global Burden of Disease, 2008
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Make Roads Safe campaign
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Million name petition presented to Ban Ki-moon
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UN Road Safety Conference approved
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Moscow Ministerial Conference 19/20 November
2009
www.1300000.net www.road-safety-conf.net
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The Moscow Conference

• Hosted by President Medvedev of Russia
• High level plenary and ministerial sessions
• RTIs as a development issue
• Good practices in road safety
• Health sectors contribution
• Safer infrastructure
• Safer vehicles
• Data

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The Moscow Conference

Bangladesh Interior Minister Cambodia
Transport Minister India Minister of
Health/Transport Laos Minister of Public
Security Malaysia Transport Minister New
Zealand Deputy Transport Minister Pakistan
Minister of Communications Vietnam Deputy
Transport Minister
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The Moscow Conference

Ministers Invitations via Russian
embassies Speaking invites from Russian Interior
Ministry NGOs Invitations from WHO Closing
date 15 October 2009
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The Moscow Conference

• The conference will
• Approve a Declaration
• Hopefully establish new networks
• Hopefully set in place a follow-up meeting
• or framework
• The conference will not
• Approve new money for road safety!!!

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Time for Action? Setting an agenda for Moscow
and beyond
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Commission meets, St Petersburg, Sept 08
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Make Roads Safe agenda for Moscow Conference

• New report
• Decade of Action for Road Safety
• 300 million catalytic global Action Plan funded
  by governments and foundations
• Institutional action to ensure safe road
  infrastructure development
• Ambitious and visionary target for reducing
  projected increase in road deaths by 2020

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Changing Direction Projected Global Road
Fatalities
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Changing Direction Potential of a Decade of
Action for Road Safety
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Changing Direction Potential of a Decade of
Action for Road Safety
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The road to a Decade of Action
Moscow Declaration supporting Decade November
2009
UN General Assembly Resolution Spring 2010
Formal approval by UN committee 2010?
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Campaign launch in Ho Chi Minh City, October 08
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Campaign launch in Ho Chi Minh City, October 08
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Campaign launch in Ho Chi Minh City, October 08
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Decade of Action report launch, Rome, May, 2009
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Decade of Action report launch, Rome, May, 2009
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Decade of Action report launch, Rome, May, 2009
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Decade of Action report launch, Rome, May, 2009
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Launch of the Turning Point documentary
shown worldwide on BBC
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Decade of Action rally, Costa Rica
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Decade of Action rally, Costa Rica
President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica
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Make Roads Safe Africa Conference, Tanzania
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Make Roads Safe Africa Conference, Tanzania
President Kikwete of Tanzania
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Cambodia
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Cambodia
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Cambodia
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UK
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UK
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Malaysia
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Washington D.C.
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Support for the Decade
UN Member States should support efforts to
establish a decade of action for road safety for
the 10 years leading to 2020, with a commitment
to halt and begin to reverse the current trend
towards an increase in the number of road traffic
deaths Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General August
2009
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UN Road Safety Collaboration working group to
prepare the Decade
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Building momentum

• What you can do
• Contact your government (start with the
  transport minister) and urge attendance in Moscow
  and support for the Decade proposal
• Lobby for your government to back a UN
  resolution for a Decade of Action

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Building momentum
Campaign Use the Decade of Action sign
boards as a means to lobby and raise media
awareness www.makeroadssafe.org
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Political leaders
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Religious and community leaders
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Celebrities and sport stars
Michael Schumacher
Ang Lee
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Organisations
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Members of the public
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Objectives

• Secure support for Decade in Moscow Ministerial
  Declaration
• Secure UN General Assembly resolution in Spring
  2010 establishing Decade
• its not too late to get involved

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If we get a Decade of Action (or even if we
dont)

• iRAP fixing 5 of high risk roads
• Helmet Vaccine Initiative aiming for 100
  helmet wearing
• Seat Belt Vaccine Initiative aiming for 100
  seatbelt wearing

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• 10 year, US10 million commitment to iRAP

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If we get a Decade of Action (or even if we
dont)

• iRAP fixing 5 of high risk roads
• Helmet Vaccine Initiative aiming for 100
  helmet wearing
• Seat Belt Initiative aiming for 100 seatbelt
  wearing

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