Strategic action framework to strengthen road safety systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

This strategic action framework to strengthen road safety systems in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region was developed with the vision of having a region free of road traffic fatalities and serious injuries, where no one dies or is injured while using a sustainable road transportation system. The framework is intended to support Member States in their efforts to implement United Nations General Assembly resolution A/74/L.86 on improving global road safety, which declared a Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030 with an ambitious target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by at least 50% by its end. The resolution also “Requests the World Health Organization and the United Nations regional commissions, as well as other relevant United Nations agencies, to continue the activities aimed at supporting the implementation of the road safety-related targets in the 2030 Agenda, while ensuring system-wide coherence”. A global plan based on the Safe System approach was thus developed by WHO and the United Nations regional commissions in cooperation with partners in the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and other stakeholders and launched in October 2021 as a generic guide for implementation of the Decade of Action.