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Community Road Safety Initiatives Communities need to be consulted on road safety issues early on in the project design phase. These consultations, which can be conducted through surveys or community meetings, should ideally include OVC and their parents. NGOs and community organizations can play an important role in gathering input from communities at the project design stage and later on in implementing traffic safety education sessions for community residents. Ideally, there should be a road safety education line item in the Ministry of Transportation’s annual budget to finance this type of activity. In Ethiopia, the Road Fund Board pledged to use 3 percent of its earnings on road safety initiatives. Many different media can be used to promote road safety at the community level, as illustrated by this long list of interventions promoted by BRAC, the largest NGO in Bangladesh:
For some examples of projects that include both the HIV/AIDS prevention and Road Safety components, refer to the project links below: |
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