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the vulnerability of the human body. The premise is that humans continue to make mistakes and
crashes cannot be totally avoided although their impact (in terms on injury outcomes) can be
mitigated by providing safe and forgiving roads and vehicles. Road users have the responsibility
of abiding for rules and regulations. This is all supported by a legal and judicial system, including
effective enforcement capacity, emergency care and incident management systems, training
facilities, funding systems, research and monitoring functions as required by a Safe Systems
Approach.
Harmonisation of road safety legislation across country borders is seen to be vitally important
to achieving success.
3.6.1 Specific goal and objectives
The Global Plan (United Nations, 2011) has as its primary goal the stabilisation and reduction of
traffic fatalities by 2020. It lists eight specific objectives which are expected to attain this goal:
These are:
1. Adopting and adhering to the major UN road safety agreements and conventions;
2. Developing and implementing road safety strategies and programmes;
3. Setting of realistic road safety targets for 2020 by building on existing frameworks;
4. Strengthening road safety management capacity and infrastructure to facilitate the technical
implementation of road safety activities at all levels;
5. Improving the quality of road safety data (collection);
6. Monitoring and reporting progress of road safety performance indicators;
7. Stimulating and encouraging increased funding, improved resource deployment and
inclusion of road safety as an integral component of road infrastructure projects; and
8. Building capacities at all levels (regional to international) to address road safety.
3.6.2 Activities
The plan proposes five pillars to support the activities at local, national, regional and local levels.
The pillars into which the activities are grouped are:
 Pillar 1: Road Safety Management;
 Pillar 2: Safer Roads and Mobility;
 Pillar 3: Safer Vehicles;
 Pillar 4: Safer Road Users;
 Pillar 5: Post-crash Response.
The plan proposes a number of national activities under each pillar and these are intended to
guide countries (and regions) to develop action plans and these serve as a framework which
should be incorporated into country specific policy and strategy. To a large extent this
framework also provides the foundation used by the WHO to compile the country reports
contained in its road safety status report and this will also form the basis of the evaluation
adopted by this COMCEC study.