Africa
In April 2005, African Ministers of Transport and Infrastructure gathered in Addis Ababa to discuss the role of transport in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and highlighted the key role of safe roads in poverty reduction. The Ministers resolved to comply with international transport conventions on safety and security and set a goal to reduce road traffic fatalities by 50 percent by 2015.
In February 2007, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Ministers of Transport and Health met in Accra, Ghana to review expert recommendations to rapidly improve road safety in Africa. Key goals included developing and advancing national action plans and identifying methods to mobilize resources to rapidly improve road safety in Africa. The Ministers drafted and signed an eleven-point Declaration that addressed establishing lead agencies within each member state, sourcing sustainable funding, advocating support of international road safety conventions and strengthening enforcement, education and trauma care. In reaffirmation of the 2005 conference, the ministers adopted the Accra Declaration which called upon the G8 Summit to recognize the need to improve road safety in Africa and ensure that road safety is included in development system programs throughout the continent produced the Accra Declaration.
