On World Health Day 2004, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank focused on the growing public health burden of road deaths and injuries in low and middle-income countries in their “World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention.” The World Report invites governments to access the current status of road safety and makes a set of six recommendations to be used as flexible guidelines to assist this process. In April 2004 the World Bank published the Transport Note No. TN-1. The Transport Note provided operational guidelines for Bank staff to facilitate the implementation of the recommendations.

The operational guidelines require safety management capacity to be reviewed at the country level; a country capacity checklist is provided to assist in this task.
The results of the review are used to prepare an investment strategy for short, medium, and long-term actions required to build a sustainable safety management capacity. The findings are being used to evaluate the checklist of the World Bank.

The project’s subject is the pilot project for a country capacity review. It focuses on four countries, one in South-America, one in Africa, one in Europe and one in Asia.

Under the project, several deliverables were identified. The Preliminary Report, Country Reports, one for each of the four (4) pilot countries, and a Final report summarising the main findings.

In this project, Royal Haskoning has been responsible for the Argentina and Pakistan Country reports and contributed to both the Preliminary and Final Report.

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