Road Safety
Click here for a full-size infographic on our impact on road safety 2023 – 2024.
According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Global Road Safety Status Report (2023), global road traffic deaths have fallen by 5% since 2018 to 1.19 million.
However, the WHO African region is the only region in the world which has seen an increase in road traffic deaths. This makes African roads some of the deadliest in the world and is the leading cause of death for young people aged 5-29 years.
Transaid is committed to improving road safety, helping to achieve the ambitious target set out under the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 3: to halve global road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030.
What we do
- We support drivers, governments, and training institutions to improve road safety.
- We transform driver training. We work with partners and governments to train driver trainers. Our driver training programmes make drivers more competent, vehicles safer, and reduce death and injury on the road.
- We transform standards and systems. We work with governments and other organisations to create and promote far-reaching improvements in driving standards, including curriculum development. We also work on transport management systems, joining with partners to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the management and maintenance of fleets of vehicles.
Our Impact
- In 2008, we partnered with the Industrial Training Centre (ITC) in Zambia, which has proven to be an invaluable resource for improving driving standards and road safety.
- From April 2023 to March 2024 alone, the ITC in Zambia trained 2,737 drivers, including HGV, PSV and forklift truck drivers – a notable 39% increase on the previous year.
- In 2010, Transaid partnered with the National Institute of Transport (NIT) in Tanzania, where drivers have received HGV, PSV and CPC training. On numerous occasions training has been delivered by a professional volunteer working on behalf of Transaid. View a short video here on our impact in Tanzania.
- From April 2023 to March 2024, the NIT in Tanzania trained 6,326 drivers, including HGV, PSV and forklift truck drivers – a staggering 75% increase on the previous year.
- Phase Two of the Professional Driver Training – Uganda (PDTU-2) concluded, with final reporting showing that Transaid and the Safe Way Right Way Driver Training Centre had exceeded the target of 750 trainees during the lifetime of the project, with 891 drivers trained (including 81 women).
- In 2021, we launched a new road safety programme in Ghana, which follows our proven Train the Trainer model to build local skills to ensure sustainable and lasting change, and between April 2023 and March 2024, these trainers trained over 1,085 drivers.
- In Mozambique, Transaid partnered with Energyworks and Appload to deliver training to 31 instructors from 22 driving schools, in total delivering training sessions to 452 drivers by September 2023, including to 13 women.
View a short video below on our impact in sub-Saharan Africa from April 2023 – March 2024: