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4 Lead Road Safety Agency
The World Bank guidelines (Bliss and Breen, 2009) specify a number of key issues and tasks for
lead agencies and define the role of the agency for each of these key issues. This chapter
summarizes the key issues; the reader is referred to the guidelines for details.
The tasks and roles provide a reference framework and provide countries the opportunity to
assess the state of road safety management in general and the application of the safety systems
approach in particular in any particular country. By comparing the defined tasks and roles, using
the procedures described by the World Bank guidelines (Bliss & Breen, 2009) to what is actually
being done in a country provides a gap analysis which reveals where improvement is required.
4.1 Functional Requirements Related for a Lead Agency - Results Focus
Results focus is the primary function for a lead agency and determines the strategic direction. It
aligns policy, strategy and interventions with results and implicit in this is that there are reliable
and representative data systems, supporting a performance oriented approach to road traffic
safety management.
summarises the principal tasks directed at results and describes the role a lead agency
should take in each of these should it wish to comply with good practice.
Table 2: The role of the Lead Agency in managing the results focus
Tasks Lead Agency Role
1. Appraising current
road safety
performance through
high level strategic
review
 Manage the process of governmental review of road safety
performance;
 Identify and bring together key stakeholders and partners that can
and will deliver actual road safety results;
 Initiate road safety capacity reviews and chair governmental road
safety performance reviews;
 Prepare reports, papers and bulletins reporting on road safety
performance;
 Achieve consensus on key problem areas in the road safety
management system;
 Follows up on agreed actions.
2. Adopting a far
reaching road safety
vision for the longer
term
 Studies and proposes a long term and far reaching road safety vision;
 Discusses the road safety vision with government and other partners
and stakeholders and society as a whole;
 Identifies the key partnerships needed within and outside
government for promoting the vision;
 Identifies the potential for high-level promotion and championing to
underpin the road safety strategy;
 Gets agreement on the vision and ensures that this is entrenched in
legislation;