African Road Safety Observatory

The African Road Safety Observatory is a digital platform for data collection and sharing, focusing on the topic of road safety management and good practice.

The project funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The main aims is to collect road safety data, depict the current road safety situation and trends at national, regional and continental level and to propose recommendations and solution to improve road safety in Africa.

It "works as an interactive space where relevant road safety needs facing African countries can be highlighted while experiences presented and solutions discussed. The online portal [...] includes freely accessible knowledge resources and tools - such as statistics, maps, reports and fact sheets – as well as dialogue and crowdsourcing functions with a view to enabling experts, institutional stakeholders and end users to take part.

Through the African Road Safety Observatory, for the very first time European and African road safety experts can exchange knowledge and experiences thanks to the dedicated Dialogue Platform web-tool. Moreover, African citizens are directly engaged through the Crowdsourcing platform, where road safety problems at country level can be reported as well as solutions can be suggested."

For further info, see pdf document below or visit the Observatory website