Improving Global Road Safety

Invites Member States that have not yet done so to nominate, as appropriate, national focal points for the Decade of Action;

Calls upon Member States to implement road safety activities relating to each of the five pillars of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action, namely, road safety management, safer roads and mobility, safer vehicles, safer road users and post-crash response;

Encourages Member States that have not yet done so to adopt and implement comprehensive national road safety legislation and regulations on the major risk factors and improve implementation through social marketing campaigns and consistent and sustained enforcement activities;

Encourages Member States to improve and strengthen road safety data collection and management systems through the standardization of definitions and reporting practices and investments in multisectoral road traffic crash surveillance and analysis;

Invites Member States to improve, where appropriate, their road management systems and introduce road safety audits both for new construction projects as well as road safety assessment programmes of the existing networks;

Encourages Member States that have not yet done so to consider becoming contracting parties to and to implement the United Nations road safety-related legal instruments, as well as to consider signing and ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,⁵ and further encourages States Parties to the 1949 Convention on Road Traffic,⁶ the 1968 Convention on Road Traffic⁷ and the 1968 Convention on Road Signs and Signals,⁸ and to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to continue to implement the provisions thereof;

Encourages Member States to improve and strengthen pre-hospital, trauma and rehabilitation care, through the adoption of a national Emergency Medical System telephone number, capacity-building and the provision of adequate and appropriate equipment;

Invites Governments to take a leading role in implementing the activities of the Decade of Action, while fostering a multisectoral collaboration of efforts that includes academia, the private sector, professional associations, non-governmental organizations and civil society, including national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, victims’ organizations and youth organizations, and the media;

Requests the World Health Organization and the United Nations regional commissions, in cooperation with other partners in the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and other stakeholders, to continue the activities aimed at supporting the implementation of the objectives of the Decade of Action;

Also requests the World Health Organization and the United Nations regional commissions to organize activities during the second United Nations Global Road Safety Week, within their resources and with voluntary financial assistance from stakeholders, in collaboration with other members of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration, to raise global, regional, national and local awareness about road safety issues, with particular attention to vulnerable road users;

Encourages Member States, civil society and the private sector to participate in the second United Nations Global Road Safety Week by hosting national and local events;

Invites Member States, international organizations, development banks and funding agencies, foundations, professional associations and private sector companies to consider providing adequate and additional funding to activities relating to the Decade of Action;

Invites all interested relevant stakeholders to explore new and innovative funding modalities to support and collaborate in national efforts to implement the Global Plan for the Decade of Action, particularly in low- and middle-income countries;

Invites Member States and the international community to take road safety into consideration in the future planning of the relevant important international agendas, such as efforts to achieve sustainable development;