About Make Roads Safe
Make Roads Safe is an international campaign to put global road traffic injuries on the G8 and UN sustainability agendas.
Building on the work of the Commission for Global Road Safety, the Make Roads Safe campaign aims to raise public and political awareness of a global road traffic injury epidemic that kills at least 3000 people, and 500 children, every day.
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Our objectives:
We are calling on the international community to recognise road traffic injuries as a global health epidemic, and to take urgent action to stop the daily tragedy of thousands of preventable deaths and injuries.
In 2008, as a result of the support of more than a million people around the world, our campaign secured UN approval for the first Global Ministerial Meeting on Road Safety, which will be held in November 2009.
Action by the G8 and major aid donors to:
- Call on governments and the United Nations to commit to a ‘Decade of Action for Road Safety
- Support for a $300 million, 10 year, global Action Plan to help improve road safety in developing countries
- Call on the World Bank and other multilateral and bilateral donors to ensure that at least 10% of their road budgets are dedicated to road safety measures
