Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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For the first task a focussed literature review was carried out. The review concentrated on
known state of the art publications on road safety management, specifically those with a focus
on road safety capacity reviews. In addition, a number of websites providing relevant
information on factsheets, reviews and checklists were consulted to supplement the literature.
This is presented in Chapters 3 and 4 of the report.
For the state of road safety in OIC member countries, the following sources were primarily used:
 Statistics published by the World Health Organisation. This provides an overview of road
safety in most countries (World Health Organisation, 2015) but also gives access to the
underlying data for each of the countries. The database covers 53 of the 57 OIC member
countries and allows for various analyses to be performed with which to compare OIC
countries with one another and with other non-OIC countries.
 Data published by the International Road Federation, specifically their report World Road
Statistics 2015, covering the period 2008-2013, have been accessed. Section 6 of the IRF
report deals with road accidents and various relevant statistics.
 The International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis Group (IRTAD) of OECD covers a limited
selection of OIC members: Nigeria, Malaysia and Morocco.
The above sources were complemented by a web search of reports and documents providing
relevant road safety information in each of the 57 OIC member countries. The search was aimed
at sourcing country specific reports describing the status quo of road safety in terms of the five
pillars of the Decade of Action (road safety management; safer roads and mobility; safer
vehicles; safer road users and post-crash response) in each of the OICmember countries. Results
are presented in Chapters 6 and 7.
2.3 Surveys
Two surveys have been carried out; a first initial survey and a second more extensive survey. As
such, a two-stage approach has been applied whereby an initial screening survey was sent to all
OIC member countries, targeting the COMCEC focal points of the OIC member countries. The
feedback from the screening survey facilitated the identification and selection of a core group of
OIC member countries for the detailed survey which has a more topical focus, concentrating on
policy aspects and following the five road safety pillars. The results are presented in Chapter 8.
2.4 Case Studies
Three case studies have been carried out in Bangladesh, Cameroon and Morocco. Using the five
road safety pillars as a guide in the review process, the case studies provide deeper insight in
the road safety situation in these three OIC member countries. The results of the case studies
are presented in Chapters 9-11.
2.5 Synthesis
The data collection phase has provided a strong base for defining conclusions and
recommendations. Three typical road safety development phases have been defined, with