Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Figure 7: Assessing results focus at the institutional management function level
Source Bliss and Breen, 2009
In this assessment the questions serve to guide an in-depth review of the current status relating
to the primary institutional management functions a lead road safety agency should perform.
The questions serve to measure the various dimensions of these functions. As a collective they
give an indication of a country’s capability and capacity with respect to road safetymanagement.
These institutional functions are results orientated and driven by measurable targets and goals.
In an ideal situation the strategic orientation is such that all actual and potential interventions
are linked to results, analyses reveal targets, and set out a performance driven management
framework for the implementing interventions and attaining their intermediate and final
outcomes. This strategic orientation is not merely a visionary statement or goal, but a
measurable expression of where the country wants to be, how it plans to get there and how it
plans to measure getting there. It is performance driven and goals and targets are monitored to
assess the actual performance. The overarching results focus incorporates six institutional
management functions, namely:
1. Coordination
This relates to how the country organises and manages its interventions and efforts aimed at
redressing road safety problems across national, regional and local government and civic
society, private sector and other organisations.