UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has issued a new official report on global road safety which highlights the importance of the Road Safety Fund among its recommendations.
The report released in November 2011 urges Governments and the UN General Assembly to "acknowledge the importance of the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility and the Road Safety Fund, and the need to develop new funding mechanisms" in order to tackle the growing road injury epidemic worldwide.
It also places emphasis on support for New Car Assessment Programmes (NCAPs) recommending that the UN General Assembly call upon Member States to “participate in the new car assessment programmes in order to foster availability of consumer information about the safety performance of motor vehicles”. It references Global NCAP which was launched by the FIA Foundation earlier this year.
The Secretary General’s note gives a detailed overview of the Road Safety Fund and references the ‘Make Roads Safe: Time for Action’ report recommendations:
“The Road Safety Fund will also encourage philanthropic partners and seek to identify potential new innovative funding sources. For example, the Commission for Global Road Safety, in its report entitled Make Roads Safe: Time for Action, launched in April 2011, proposed an opt-out contribution of US$ 2 or the equivalent added to the sale of every new car sold to support implementation of the Global Plan, through the Fund.”
It also urges support and progress on all five pillars of the Global Plan: road safety management; safer roads and vehicle design; safer road users; and post-crash care.
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