Decade of Action for Road Safety: The Global Plan videos 

 

The Global Plan provides an overall framework for activities which may take place in the context of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The categories or "pillars" of activities are: building road safety management capacity; improving the safety of road infrastructure and broader transport networks; further developing the safety of vehicles; enhancing the behaviour of road users; and improving post-crash care. These six short video clips explain each of the five pillars and the Global Plan as a whole.

Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020: saving millions of lives

For many years road traffic crashes have been acknowledged by the United Nations and its Member States to be a considerable challenge to the achievement of health and development goals. It has only been during the past decade, however, that the issue has gained the prominence it deserves among the world's most pressing international health and development concerns.

Following the highly successful First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety hosted by the Government of the Russian Federation in November 2009, a Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020 was officially proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in March 2010. The Decade seeks to save millions of lives by improving the safety of roads and vehicles; enhancing the behaviour of road users; and improving emergency services.

This brochure Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020: saving millions of lives offers key data and information about road traffic injuries, the Decade and WHO's role. 

World unites to halt death and injury on the road

Governments, international agencies, civil society organizations and private companies from more than 100 countries are launching the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. From Tanzania to Sri Lanka and from Namibia to Mexico, presidents and prime ministers are expressing their commitment and launching national plans for the Decade. To symbolize the launch, national monuments are illuminated with the road safety "tag", the new symbol for the Decade, from New York City, to Rio de Janeiro, Warsaw, Sydney, Moscow, Colombo and Geneva. These events mark the start of the Decade which seeks to save 5 million lives over the ten-year period.

• Calendar of launch events around the world

Road safety tag projected on national landmarks

To mark the occasion of the launch of the Decade, the Decade's symbol - the road safety tag - is being projected on national landmarks. This includes Australia's Sydney Harbour Bridge; Brazil's Christ the Redeemer Statue and Castillo de Fiocruz in Rio de Janeiro and the Congress in Brasilia; Poland's Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw; Russian Federation's Moscow State University; Sri Lanka's World Trade Center in Colombo; Switzerland's Jet d'Eau in Geneva; the United Kingdom's Trafalgar Square in London; and the United States' Times Square in New York City, among others.

 

source : http://www.who.int/roadsafety/decade_of_action/en/