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Appendix 4: Desk Research Results on Selected OIC Member Countries
More detailed review of selected OIC member countries
A literature search was carried out for documentation describing road safety studies and
evaluations in all of the OIC member countries. The search was limited to documents focussing
on road safety studies and related to national road safety developments and trends. The search
focussed on primarily English documentation. Given the limited scope of this literature study,
this part of the study concentrated on two countries from each OIC region. For each country an
overview, based on the five pillars described in the UN’s Global Plan, on road safety was
prepared on the basis of available literature. The purpose of this was to provide a more detailed
benchmark of the state of road safety development in a country and supports the summaries
prepared in chapter 6.1. Although these country reports provide significantly more insight into
the state of road safety with respect to development in each of the pillars, it must be borne in
mind that these are based on a relatively small selection of English reports available on internet.
The content of these reports is fairly specific and not necessarily directed at the specific aims
and goals of the Pillars as outlined in the Global plan. The relationship between the findings of
the reports and the aims of the Global Plan are sometimes inferred and do not necessarily reveal
the true extent of development in a particular area of road safety. For this full capacity reviews
are necessary.
However, for the purpose of this literature study these country reports provide an example and
a basis of how to conduct cross-country benchmarking studies. The country reports should
where possible be based on capacity reviews and where this is not possible, relevant
documentation must be sourced that provides results and evidence of road safety developments
in a specific field (or Pillar). Such evidence must be supportive of actual implementation projects
and not be pure theoretical exercises (such as often described in policy and strategies). These
country reports can ultimately be used to score and rank the road safety performance of
individual countries as illustrated in chapter 6.1.
Arab Region
Road Safety in Morocco
Introduction
Morocco has a population of 33.8 million and a total land area of 710.850 square kilometres. In
2013, 3832 people were reported killed by road traffic accidents (World Health Organisation,
2015). However, this number might be an underestimation since not all fatalities are reported.
The WHO estimates 6870 road traffic fatalities for 2013, equivalent to a rate of 20.8 road
fatalities per 100.00 people which is slightly higher than the average of 20.1 for middle-income
countries (World Health Organisation, 2015b).
The World Health Organisation report of 2015 shows that there are around 3 million registered
vehicles in Morocco. Most of these vehicles are cars and other 4-wheeled light vehicles.