Project Activities
The project has been implemented through 5 project components or outputs all of which work towards achieving the desired intermediary outcomes in a synergized way.
Project Components
Experts in various fields from Academia, Government and Non-Government organisations have been invited to technical consultative meetings at parliament to deliver very specific and informative sessions allowing PAFROS members to have a holistic and systematic view of road safety and putting the right information and tools in their hands to deliver the project outcomes and ultimately objectives.
Six technical consultation meetings were planned and 3 held at Parliament with a good level of participation of both members of parliament as well as officials from relevant government ministries, departments and agencies. The purpose and objective of these meetings will be to highlight, address and facilitate action for key road safety legislation.
The 3 meetings that have been held have focused on the following areas of concern;
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- National road safety policy and strategy/action plan,
- Establishment of a national road safety authority to replace the national road safety council
- Review of the traffic and road safety act 1998,
- Effective and sustained enforcement of laws and regulations
- Road safety data.
The Rt. Hon. Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda Hon. Rebecca kadaga endorses the Road Safety Legislation Action Plan. Hon. Kadaga ios the patron of the Parliamentary Forum on Road safety.
Survivors of traffic crashes endorse the road safety legislative action plan during the launch at the Parliament of Uganda.
Technical consultative meeting on pillar one – Road Safety Management
The media campaign has provide structured messages on varied channels of communication as well as a platform for members of PAFROS to reach out and discuss issues of road safety in Uganda at National at a level. The Media campaign employed all channels of communication; electronic, print and social media to ensure that a tailored, resounding and constant message to targeted audience is achieving a level of target group interest, dialogue and action.
Number of Radio and TV talk shows have been completed all of aligned to topics discussed during the technical consultative meetings.
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- During the talk shows the members of parliament have been able to participate showcasing a deeper and more holistic understanding of the road safety agenda, this has been encouraging for the project team as well as government of Uganda officials and non government stakeholders.
- A number of print media publications/editorials/advertorials A number of articles have been published to raise awareness on road safety and support the policy discussion.
- Social Media engagement levels have been very high leading up to and following the launch of the legislative action plan.
The role the media plays in influencing and having an impact on people’s attitudes, behaviour and actions cannot be underplayed. Indeed, media has been a driving force to achieving national awareness and a call to action globally, and media coverage has been identified as one of the key indicators of a country’s level of road safety awareness.
In Uganda, while media coverage of road safety is growing, it is still limited to accident reporting with limited research based information or the broader concept that is road safety. The potential of the media in Uganda is best illustrated by the fact that media reports on public health issues demonstrate an informed and researched view point and they are able to bring to the public the entire spectrum of the issue at hand and even moderate national discussions. Now that the media has shown an interest in accident reporting, the next move should be to build capacity in road safety reporting.
in order to initiate investigate and influence policy discussion a selected team of 30 media personnel underwent very specific training in road safety that has allowed them have a boarder conceptualized understanding to guide reporting and provide them with resource network for editorial information.
The director Traffic and Road Safety – Uganda Police Force training journalists on road safety reporting.
As stipulated in Goal 3 of the GRSF Strategic Plan 2013-2020, this project supports the concept of a holistic approach to road network development and therefore to support the UN Decade of Action Pillar on safer roads a road safety inspection/audit was completed on North Eastern Road-Corridor Asset Management Project(NERAMP) Tororo-Mbale-Soroti-Lira—Kamdini Corridor.
The final audit report was disseminated on the 6th December 2018. A proposed number of actions have been discussed with World Bank as a follow up phase to this road safety inspection and its recommendations.
Recommendations made in the road safety audit report will be disseminated to a cross section of stakeholders for discussion and implementation by relevant government and local authorities, contractors, development partners and civil society along the highway.
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