Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Asian Region
In the Asian region Afghanistan, Maldives and Pakistan rank poorly with regards to
adopting measures supporting the pillars adopted by the Global Plan for the Decade of Action.
Indonesia, and to a lesser extent Malaysia, have instituted strong safety management initiatives
although they still score quite poorly in the other pillars. In the Asian group Kazakhstan appears
to be the most advanced in terms of meeting the criteria encompassing a Safe Systems Approach.
Table 18: Rating of OIC countries in the Asian region
Asian Group WHO
data
Safety Mngt
(Inst. Fmwk)
Roads and
Mobility
Vehicles Road
Users
Post-
Crash
Care
Road
Safety
Data
Afghanistan  2 1 2 1 2 1
Albania  4 5 2 3 3 2
Azerbaijan  2 2 2 3 4 3
Bangladesh  3 3 1 1 1 2
Brunei N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Indonesia  5 5 1 2 2 2
Iran  3 4 2 4 4 2
Kazakhstan  5 4 2 5 4 4
Kyrgyz
Republic
 4 3 2 3 3 4
Malaysia  5 5 3 2 2 4
Maldives  1 1 1 1 3 4
Pakistan  1 2 1 2 2 1
Tajikistan  3 3 2 4 3 2
Turkey  4 4 5 3 3 2
Turkmenistan  4 5 2 5 1 3
Uzbekistan  3 2 N/A 4 3 1
Guyana  4 1 2 1 3 4
Suriname  2 4 2 5 2 2
Note: A weighting was applied to the WHO data to derive the above summary scores in each pillar. These are based
on the number of Yes/No responses per Pillar; the proportion of 2-wheeled vehicles in the population, the number
of traffic laws applied etc. as shown in Appendix 3. A score of 1 is poor and 5 is excellent.
Comments based on the scores
This analysis reveals that there are no OIC member countries that score high on all elements.
This is in itself not surprising because even countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands,
which have been applying the Safe Systems Approach, do not systematically score high across
all the elements (Bliss & Breen, 2009; Morsink et al., 2005). However, a bigger concern is the
countries which score low across all pillars and countries which score high on Safety
Management and low on most of the other aspects. The fact that these countries score high on
road safety management and low on other aspects could mean that the effect of state of the art
road safety management infrastructure and systems as yet has to manifest itself. However, it
could also mean that a lead agency has been put into place but that this agency has been unable
to systematically deal with problems in the other pillars. To gain insight into the effectiveness of
the road safety management one would need historical data to follow developments in the other
pillars. As has been suggested earlier, capacity reviews are a useful instrument to gain the