UNEP and R2W : Link of R2W as a Case Study!!

Dear Ms. Kanthimathi Kannan:

In response to your email below to MaryM'Mukindia, I am writing to update you on a UNEP and FIA Foundation project that is developing guidance on how to improve road design and finance for integrating NMT into road infrastructure investments in developing countries. It is provisionally called the '10% campaign', and we are launching a website next week that will be linked to UNEP's urban environment page: http://www.unep.org/dpdl/urban_environment/. This campaign and work is based on a World Bank and Commission for Global Road Safety recommendation that all donor supported road projects in developing countries should include a minimum 10% road safety component, and that this principle should be rigorously and consistently applied by all bilateral and multilateral donors. In terms of the design elements required to design and build streets that are safe and optimal for all users, we are now developing a global guidance document that will 1) summarize what the '10% campaign' is trying to achieve and why, 2) will seek to define mobility and roads according to new thinking and understandings of the function of road space (e.g. iRAP's Vaccine for Roads report), 3) will outline the barriers to improved NMT and safety financing at the international and national (local) levels in countries, 4) will summarize what an urban 'sustainable' road would look like from a design perspective (incorporating elements which improve safety, accessibility and environmental performance), 5) will outline a set of indicators that would help agencies and policy makers assess the performance of these roads based on these three indicators and/or decide how what percentage to allocate to road safety (including NMT infrastructure), and 6) will make recommendations on how to change practice (including financing allocations - hence the 10%) based on established best practice (e.g. complete streets, CSS, etc.) and using case studies from African cities as examples of where improvements are being made and where more can be done. We would like to present the document and recommendations at the November 2009 road safety ministerial in Moscow, where donors and international institutions and road funding consortiums will be present. While our initial focus is on Africa, this is a global campaign and the work is relevant to Asia in particular. We are currently working with iRAP, ITDP, and iCE (this is a FIA Foundation funded project) to produce this material and would like to link R2W as a case study/resource on the UNEP website. I am also attaching a short brochure on this work.

With best regards
Elisa
Elisa Dumitrescu
Urban Environment UnitClearing-House of the Partnership for Clean Fuels and VehiclesDivision of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE)United Nations Environment ProgrammeP.O Box 30552 Nairobi, KENYATel: (+254 20) 762 4735Fax: (+254 20) 762 5264
http://www.unep.org/dpdl/urban_environment/http://www.unep.org/pcfv