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7 Desk Research Results on Road Safety Management and Data
7.1 General Overview of Road Safety Development in OIC Member Countries
This section provides an overview of the development of the Safe Systems Approach in the OIC
member countries, grouped according to their regions. To this end a rating system has been
developed, providing insight in the way OIC member countries manage the five road safety
pillars and related road safety data. In order to be as objective as possible, the majority of ratings
are derived fromscores presented in theWHOWorld Report (World Health Organisation, 2015).
The way the scoring system is designed is presented in Appendix 3.
In certain cases no data were available and these have not been rated (indicated by N/A). The
scores are based on best current insights and should be viewed as indicative rather than certain.
The WHO World Report is based on a limited number of criteria that do not reveal the full depth
of road safety management although they are the best currently available for an international
comparison. To establish insight in how far countries are adopting the Safe Systems principles
would require a full capacity review, covering the full spectrum of management functions,
interventions and results (based on the World Bank and WHO guidelines of Bliss and Breen, see
chapter 3 and 4). In most cases such capacity reviews have not been conducted or were not
available for this literature study. The WHO study provides a uniform and standardised set of
data with which an initial comparison could be done.
t provide insight into the scores per pillar and per OIC member country. The
scores are the result of a weighting applied to the different criteria, as described in the Global
Plan developed for the UN (United Nations, 2011). In addition, the component of road safety
data was added to the overall evaluation. This last element was added as a separate criterion
since the road safety management pillar only reflects this indirectly and road safety data is a
very important outcome indicator and paramount for effective road safety management.