safe for every child: unicef’s agenda on road traffic injury · on rti in the post-2015 agenda ....
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Safe for every child: UNICEF’s agenda on road traffic injury
Avi Silverman, Global Partnership on Child Road Injury FIA Foundation-UNICEF
Leading global health burden on school-age children and adolescents
Lancet, IHME Global Burden of Disease
Global Action Agenda on Child RTI
• Integrating RTI into UNICEF’s mainstream strategic approach
• Engaging with
global partners on child RTI
• Supporting action
on RTI in the Post-2015 agenda
Vietnam’s national child RTI strategy • Leveraging
relationships with Government
• Exploiting pre-existing platforms to support interventions
• Agent to catalyse change, scale up and achieve impact on child road injury prevention
China work-plan • Developing child RTI strategy
with Government • Data, research on status of
child road injury • Taskforce, coalition building
with govt. and stakeholders
• Supporting interventions
South Africa: road injury profile • 16,000 deaths a year • 32 deaths per 100,000
population • More than 30 children under
15 killed or injured on roads every day
• A ‘safe system’ for children. Safe road infrastructure, training and education, enforcement.
• Local advocacy, engaging public authorities
• Sustained policy change
from national to provincial and local levels
South Africa: ‘Safe Schools’ Model
Global Advocacy: UN Global Road Safety Week
“Road accidents are the biggest killer of young people in the world…it’s a burden on the poorest countries, the poorest families.” Anthony Lake Executive Director, UNICEF
“We can not afford to pay the price of road crashes with young lives.” Margaret Chan Director General, WHO