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required insight into road safety management and it is strongly advocated to undertake such
reviews in OIC member countries.
The fact that some OIC member countries score relatively high across all pillars but yet have
high crash rates could suggest that:
 The variables and criteria used by the WHO to describe the state of the art within the pillars
are not the most suitable criteria for these countries.
 Crashes in countries with seemingly well-developed pillars have not yet been affected by the
implemented improvements.
 The improvements describing the status of development in the pillars have no effect on
crashes.
 The criteria do not reveal the true status of pillar development.
7.2 Specific Illustrations of Road Safety Development in OIC Member
Countries
A literature search was carried out for documentation describing road safety studies and
evaluations in selected OIC member countries. The search was limited to documents focussing
on road safety studies and related to national road safety developments and trends. The search
focussed primarily on documentation in English language. Given the limited scope of this
literature study, this part of the study concentrated on two countries from each OIC region. For
each country an overview on road safety, based on the five pillars described in the UN’s Global
Plan, was prepared on the basis of available literature. Some findings are presented below,
providing examples of how road safety management aspects are addressed in selected OIC
member countries. Appendix 4 presents more elaborate results of the literature review.
African Region
Nigeria
Road safety management
 Established sixteen additional Federal Road Safety Corps Command Units;
 A five-year action program, The Nigeria Road Safety Strategy, is established;
 An important stakeholder organisation is the Arrive Alive Road Safety initiative;
 Numerous individual operators (e.g. organised transport, private companies) are a main
problem for law enforcement;
 Financial penalties are often inadequate deterrents.
Roads and Mobility
 Second longest network in Africa;
 Intense traffic pressure on the road network in Nigeria;
 Large metropolitan areas face new problems due to an increasing traffic demand and
congestion;
 Significant higher fatality rating in festive and seasonal periods;
 The road network is prone to natural environmental factors;
 No appropriate budget for road construction and maintenance.