UNECE: UN Road Safety Fund

UN Road Safety Fund Sets Ambitious Goals

COVID-19 accelerated the need to make urban centers livable and pedestrians safe. A transversal issue at the moment is road safety design, with the increase in the number of people using alternative transport, as cyclists take the streets and roads in major urban centers.

The UN Road Safety Fund coordinates activities at the multilateral level and seeks to mitigate the systemic, structural poverty, issues that contribute to death and injuries on roads in low-to-middle income countries, and it is run by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which acts as the Secretariat of the Road Safety Fund, an initiative led by the FIA Foundation, a UK Charity, created by the Federation Internationale des Automobiles.

With road deaths at 1.35 million a year, plus 50 million in serious related injuries, worldwide, the issue of safe roads design calls for concerted action between UN country-members and the private sector.

90% of road deaths and serious injuries occur in mid-to-low …