The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility

The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility was established in November 2005 to generate funding and technical assistance for global, regional and country level activities designed to accelerate and scale-up the efforts of low- and middle-income countries to build their scientific, technological and managerial capacities to prepare and implement cost-effective road safety programs. The World Bank has supported the launch of this initiative through funding from its Development Grant Facility and in partnership with its founding donors: the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society, the Government of the Netherlands and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).

The Facility directs a portfolio of global, regional and country activities with a focus on four primary goals:

• Strengthen global, regional and country capacity to support sustainable reductions in road deaths and injuries in low- and middle-income countries.
• Catalyze increased levels of road safety investment in low- and middle-income countries.
• Accelerate safety knowledge transfer to low- and middle-income countries.
• Promote innovative infrastructure solutions to improve the safety of mixed traffic, and mixed speed road environments in low- and middle-income countries.

To manage the delivery of its activities the Facility capitalizes on the experience and expertise of its implementation partners in ways that strengthen and sustain their operations, rather than replicate their implementation capacity. The Facility’s mission focus is to become the global ‘clearing house’ for the funding required to implement the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention recommendations as well as provide the strategic leadership to focus and financially sustain the collective efforts of all partners in global road safety initiatives. For more information on the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility and to read the Facility’s strategic plan¹, please visit their website:  http://www.worldbank.org/grsf.

¹ World Bank Global Road Safety Facility Strategic Plan: 2006-2015