The Road Safety Capacity Building Programme wins a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award

The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), and the Asia Pacific Road Safety Observatory (APRSO), has won a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award, for their joint Road Safety Capacity Building Programme (RSCBP).

This innovative capacity-building programme focused on building road safety capacity and technical knowledge among professionals in LMICs. In particular, the RSCBP concentrated on embedding evidence-based road safety interventions into transport projects, and on the development of ‘system-based’ road safety projects.

The RSCBP was purposefully designed to engage participants in a series of linked capacity-building engagements to develop technical knowledge relating to the key road safety areas of focus and to translate this technical know-how into practical approaches that can be implemented to address road crash death and serious injury. The programme design aligned directly to the key pillars of action outlined in the Decade of Action 2011 – 2020 and the recommended actions of the Decade of Action 2021 – 2030. The topics of road safety management, safer road users and safer roads and roadside infrastructure are represented in both global plans and this training programme is structured to address the requirement to build capacity in these areas.