Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Tasks Lead Agency Role
 Develops tools for use by local authorities such as road safety
calendars, safety management systems, crash reduction studies or
good practice guidelines, often in association with and support of the
appropriate professional or safety organisation;
 Engages the non-governmental sector to help deliver results. While
effective NGOs are independent and receive funding from a variety
of sources to preserve their impartiality, the lead agency is an
important source of support;
 Establishes or helps to establish new partnerships or organisations
in support of the country targets and results focus and supporting
institutional management functions;
 Provides core funding; technical support and pump priming
(government investment in commercial sector to stimulate the
economy);
 Engages the business sector in support of a range of institutional
management functions needed to deliver results;
 Establishes a national strategy for work-related road safety and
requires safety provision in all in-house transport contracts to
stimulate local industry;
 Includes business sector representation in the national strategy
consultation/reference group in the national road safety
coordination hierarchy;
 Establishes well-publicised agreements involving companies in key
activities in support of the strategy.
4. Parliamentary
relations at central,
regional and local
levels
 Engages and encourages parliamentary relations at central, regional
and local levels to ensure support for the desired focus on results;
 Provides support to parliamentary liaison staff to aid the process of
communication between the executive and Parliament;
 Presents an annual report to Parliament on road safety progress;
 Encourages through its Ministers the establishment of a dedicated
all party road safety committee to champion road safety within the
parliamentary process, the media and society at large; parliamentary
hearings on aspects of road safety by relevant parliamentary
committees; and parliamentary legislation on road safety
 Supports the production of road safety guidance for locally elected
representatives to encourage local leadership and evidence based
practice at the local level in partnership with NGOs, local authority
association;
 Includes all party parliamentary road safety organisations in the
advisory group of road safety coordinating bodies.
Source: adapted from Bliss and Breen, 2009