Congratulations to the successful candidates for the Road Safety Professionals in Africa Training and Accreditation grants

We are incredibly proud to announce that we have chosen 60 successful recipients, out of a total of 202 applications received . We received applications from 24 countries across Africa, with the successful recipients from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Eswantini, Rwanda, Tunisia, Ghana and Senegal.

Applicants were from Road Safety NGO’s, Universities and Government Agencies from both a national and local levels, and represented a varied level of experience – from recently graduated engineers, through to experienced engineers and high academic level professors.

Some of the highlights nominated by the successful recipients on how they intend to use use their knowledge include:

• Save lives through change in the Road Safety engineer sector.
• Advocate to include iRAP methodology in the national plan.
• Teach iRAP methodology to their engineering students.
• Improve data collection and road assessments.
• Advocate to improve roads to meet a 3-star or better standard.
• Improve the design of roads they assess.
• Identify problematic areas and improve road safety.
• Build capacity of other stakeholders.
• Check and assess their road designs with ViDA and SR4D tools.

By helping to build the capacity of professionals in low and lower-middle income countries to use the iRAP methodology, the Training and Accreditation grants are a tangible contribution towards supporting achievement of the Decade of Action for Road Safety goal to halve the number of road deaths and injuries by 2030, and the United Nations Global Road Safety Performance Targets. Target 3 states: “By 2030, all  new roads achieve technical standards for all road users that take into account road safety, or meet a three star rating or better”; and Target 4 states: “By 2030, more than 75% of travel on existing roads is on roads that meet technical standards for all road users that take into account road safety”.

These successful grant recipients will:

• Gain access to all iRAP online courses for a period of 12 months;
• Be eligible to apply for accreditation within the first 6 months;
• For those that gain accreditation, be eligible for accreditation renewals for the following 2-year period.

The courses include content on road surveys, road attribute coding, analysis and reporting and star rating for designs. From there, successful recipients can also gain advanced knowledge on how to use the iRAP ViDA software to perform road assessment projects.

If you have any further questions, please contact our Training and Accreditation Coordinator Alessandra Francoia via email: training@irap.org

Below is a list of all our successful recipients for 2021.