Over 200 nominated road safety stakeholders from Tanzania received specialist road safety training last week as part of the 10 Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure Pilot currently underway in the country.
The group of private sector consultants and engineers drawn from road development agencies, the Ministry of Works, Transport and Communications, road safety NGOs, financing organisations and academic institutions were selected by the project Steering Committee and Working Groups.
Développé en collaboration avec des experts mondiaux de la sécurité routière et de l'ingénierie, le cours de 2 jours portait, entre autres, sur les causes d'accidents, les principes fondamentaux de l'ingénierie de la sécurité routière basés sur une approche systémique sécuritaire, la gestion de la vitesse, l'économie de la sécurité routière et les mesures essentielles d'un système de gestion de la sécurité des infrastructures routières performant.
Building capacity in Tanzania is a key deliverable of the 10 Steps Project and this was the first of 3 courses that will explore road safety engineering, iRAP assessments and road safety audits.
The training aims to address skill gaps and develop participant skills to deliver road safety projects that prioritise the safety of all road users and eliminate high-risk roads in the country.
The courses will be delivered as a mix of classroom based and virtual self-paced sessions, as well as practical on-the-job training delivered on projects launched through the pilot.
Those who successfully complete the iRAP training will be eligible to apply for supported Accréditation iRAP.
The Ten Step Pilot Project, jointly funded by the Fonds des Nations Unies pour la sécurité routière (FNUSR) et le Fonds Mondial pour la Sécurité Routière de la Banque Mondiale (FSR), réunit le gouvernement tanzanien par l'intermédiaire du MMinistère des Travaux, TANROADS and Tanzania Rural and Urban Roads Agency (TARURA), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (CEA), Banque mondiale, International Road Federation (FDI), Association mondiale de la route (PIARC), Programme international d'évaluation routière (iRAP), Fédération des routes de Tanzanie (TARA), des instituts de recherche, des ONG et des acteurs industriels.
Tanzania is the first country to pilot the 10 Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure. It is designed to provide countries with a proven step by step process to build national capacity for safer road infrastructure and to help them achieve Les Objectifs de Développement Durable (ODD) 3 et 4 de l'ONU. It is expected more countries will follow, learning from Tanzania’s experience.
Pour plus d'informations :
- On the 10 Step Pilot in Tanzania, cliquez ici
- To download the 10 Steps for Safer Road Infrastructure Resource, cliquez ici