Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Tasks Lead Agency Role
 Identifies and proposes the possible contributions which might be
made by different agencies to the national road safety strategy with
reference to international good practice;
 Organises appropriate follow up to monitor and ensure delivery;
 Mobilises resources for the national road safety strategy from as
many sustainable sources as possible using the coordination
platform;
 Proposes and secures a budget for inter-governmental coordination
and ensures that sufficient in-house capacity is established;
 Establishes a coordination secretariat within the lead agency to
provide multi-disciplinary technical support to the coordinating
agency and its sub-committees.
2. Vertical coordination
from central through to
local government level
 Manages vertical coordination between central, regional and local
government in support of delivering on stated targets;
 Ensures that the roles and responsibilities of the different levels of
government for different aspects of road safety are set out in
legislation, including a legal duty to act on the part of lower levels of
government;
 Includes representation of the regions and municipalities in national
coordination bodies and arrangements;
 Proposes and seeks agreement of legislative requirements for the
regions and municipalities to establish coordination arrangements
to achieve results;
 Establishes funding mechanisms and prepares implementation tools
to assist and encourage lower levels of government in carrying out
results-based interventions identified in the national road safety
strategy;
 Helps to establish community partnerships with local road safety
coordinators financed by the lead agency to stimulate local action.
3. Develop and maintain
specific delivery
partnerships between
government, NGO,
community and
business at the central,
regional and local
levels
 Identifies, establishes, funds and provides tools for key partnerships
between government agencies. It ensures that local and national
government and police forces work closely to achieve a common
reporting standard where responsibilities for collecting data are
devolved. It establishes crash databases and provides advice on data
management and analysis;
 Makes use of MoU and agreements to cement partnerships between
the lead agency and key partners and stakeholders;
 Encourages and helps to fund multi-sectoral local partnerships by
engaging the key partners and stakeholders to implement good
practice interventions;