China Road Safety Engagement Strategy : Interim Report
The World Bank's road safety partnership with the Government of China (GOC) is maturing at a time when a deeper awareness of the negative development impacts of road crashes in low and middle-income countries coincides with the shift in road s...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/07/16364135/china-road-safety-engagement-strategy-interim-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12922 |
| Summary: | The World Bank's road safety
partnership with the Government of China (GOC) is maturing
at a time when a deeper awareness of the negative
development impacts of road crashes in low and middle-income
countries coincides with the shift in road safety management
policies and practices in leading high-income countries
which are becoming focused on the elimination of road deaths
and serious injuries, rather than accepting them as human
failure and the inevitable price of economic progress. This
shift in results focus is also aligned with other
sustainable development initiatives addressing
environmental, energy and public health goals, which present
significant opportunities to capture the co-benefits of
harmonized initiatives. For these reasons the World Bank and
GOC agreed to review the situation in China and prepare a
new road safety engagement strategy. The proposed strategy
aims to facilitate an accelerated transfer of road safety
knowledge and scaling up of investment at national,
provincial and city levels to rapidly improve China's
road safety performance, with an emphasis on strengthening
national lead agency functions and multisectoral
coordination arrangements. It also aims to promote
China's regional and global leadership role over the
coming decade and draw upon the innovative services of
international partners through the World Bank's global
networks and road safety investment experience. The need for
a designated agency to lead and coordinate the delivery of
activities under the new engagement strategy was
highlighted. Several candidate agencies were considered and
in particular the State Administration for Work Safety
(SAWS) was identified as being well placed and ready to take
responsibility for this task.This report summarizes the
review findings and presents them in an operational
framework specified in the form of a project concept
encompassing all activities proposed under the new
engagement strategy. It then outlines the steps to be taken
to finalize the project concept before detailed preparation
for its implementation can commence. |
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