Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Since COMCEC has identified road safety as an important part of its cooperation agenda, it
wishes to conduct a benchmarking study of road safety management in its member countries in
order develop some strategic direction and provide future policy recommendations.
1.2 Objective of the Project
The main objective of this project is to assist OIC member countries with the reduction of road
accidents. To this end, the study focuses on international best practices and the development of
a framework for road safety that can be applied in OIC member countries. At the same time, it
reviews road safety in OIC member countries, through desk research, questionnaire and
surveys, as well as a number of country-specific case studies. The combination of this research
has led to conclusions and recommendations on how to improve road safety in OIC member
countries.
The results of the project will contribute to the process of raising awareness of road safety
among the OIC member countries, as well as to trigger a debate on specifically how to improve
road safety, based on the findings of the study.
1.3 Contents of This Report
Four sections can be distinguished in this report:
1. Road safety: status, trends and conceptual framework
Besides this introduction (Chapter 1), Section 1 also addresses the methodological approach
(Chapter 2); international trends and best practices in Road Safety Management (Chapter 3);
the importance of a Road Safety Lead Agency (Chapter 4); and Road Safety Development
phases (Chapter 5).
2. Road safety in OIC member countries
This section deals with road safety performance in OIC member countries (Chapter 6);and
the five road safety pillars in OIC member countries, based on desk research (Chapter 7) and
the survey (Chapter 8).
3. Case studies
This section describes the results of three cases studies, i.e. Bangladesh (Chapter 9),
Cameroon (Chapter 10) and Morocco (Chapter 11).
4. Conclusions and recommendations
The section concludes the report by presenting conclusions and recommendations (Chapter
12).