ESCWA and the Islamic Development Bank are organizing a regional workshop on Road Safety Data and Policies in selected Arab countries. The workshop is held within the United Nations Road Safety Fund project on "Strengthening evidence-based interventions for road safety in the Arab region", and follows up on the twenty-third session of the ESCWA Committee on Transport and Logistics.
The main objectives of the workshop are to:
- Present and discuss the findings of the ESCWA surveys on road safety management and data systems.
- Address gaps in collecting, processing, and analysing police records on road traffic fatalities and injuries.
- Present and discuss the outputs of the meeting held by ESCWA on Road safety data and policies in Lebanon, Qatar and Tunisia.
- Agree on the elements of the optimal unified template for road crash data recording that are suggested for developing the Arab Integrated Road Safety Observatory.