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4.2.3 Funding and resource allocation
This function relates to financing the operational budget/s of the lead agency 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). The Country Guidelines have identified two primary tasks and the
role of the lead agency with respect to these are summarised i
Table 5: Lead Agency role in funding and resource allocation
Tasks Lead Agency Role
1. Ensuring
sustainable
funding
sources
 Reviews and makes a strong case to government for improved funding
mechanisms on the basis of in-house or external benchmarking of international
good practice;
 Encourages the establishment of dedicated funding sources for road safety,
(e.g., from road user fees and road funds), which provide a means of financing
road safety outputs from different ministries; and ensures that road safety
objectives and management structure for such funds are clearly defined in
legislation;
 Ensures that opportunities for additional funding from insurance and business
sectors are exploited for activity to achieve results by means of establishing
levies on insurance premiums and encouraging business sponsorship;
 Earmarks funds, wherever possible, from central government to key
stakeholders at regional and local levels for key outputs set out in the national
road safety strategy;
 Manages hypothecated monies from road traffic fines for safety work.
2. Establishing
procedures
to guide the
allocation of
resources
across safety
programmes.
 Reviews and estimates, often with external technical support, the value of
preventing road traffic deaths and serious injuries;
 Develops and uses a nationally recognised basis for project evaluation based
on an economic appraisal of measures using the value of preventing death and
serious injury to identify priorities;
 Ensures sufficient in-house lead agency capacity for the preparation of safety
budgets and allocation of resources based on a cost-effectiveness and cost
benefit analyses;
 Makes proposals to other governmental partners concerning the content of
their annual budgets and ensuring that the annual performance agreements of
the key governmental stakeholders reflect their accountability for agreed road
safety strategy outputs;
 Establishes specific procedures to guide allocation of resources across safety
programs;
 Makes business cases to coordination bodies and Cabinet for the allocation of
resources based on a cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses, recognising
that road safety improvements can also meet other governmental objectives.
Source: adapted from Bliss and Breen, 2009