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2. Legislation
This defines the legal framework from within which the organisations and institutions
responsible for road safety must function. It defines the responsibility, accountability,
intervention and associated institutional management functions needed to achieve the
desired result.
3. Funding and resource allocation
This relates to financing the operational budget/s of the organisation/s responsible for road
safety management and the associated interventions needed to achieve the intended results
in a sustainable manner. It also pertains to the efficient allocation of resources based on a
rational evaluation framework (i.e. based on quantitative assessment of cost and benefit in
relation to stated objectives).
4. Promotion
This relates to the process of communicating with the public on road safety matters and
should be a core business of government and society to emphasise the shared social
responsibility to develop, implement and support road safety improvement initiatives and
interventions that aim at meeting stated targets.
5. Monitoring and evaluation
Monitoring and evaluation deals with the on-going and systematic measurement of road
safety performance measures and indicators in order to assess and evaluate the efficacy of
introduced measures and interventions.
6. Research and development and technology transfer
This is an integral and essential component of any road safety management system. It relates
to the timely identification of changes in the system, the development of new techniques and
methods, the application of new knowledge and the transfer and application of knowledge to
continually improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the system in order to keep meeting
the desired results.
3.4.3 Assessing results at the interventions level
Informed by the systems and institutional management level appraisals, Checklists 2 to 5 of the
World Bank guidelines (Bliss & Breen, 2009) are used to assess the results at the intervention
level (see . The review focusses on the three broad intervention areas (planning,
operation, design and use; vehicles and drivers; and recovery and rehabilitation of crash
victims). The purpose of these questions is to probe for relationships between the intervention
and their outputs, preferably in the form of quantifiable relationships backed by documented
studies or research and focusing on safe road design, operation andmaintenance; safe roads and
roadsides; safe speeds and safe vehicles; emergency response and emergency (trauma) centre
protocols and practices.