Attach <br />Pedestrian safety: a road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners <br />Attach <br />Introduction <br />Implementation of good practices in road safety <br />The World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the FIA Foundation for <br />the Automobile and Society and the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) have <br />been collaborating on a project over the past six years to produce a series of good <br />practice manuals covering key issues identified in the World report on road traffic <br />injury prevention (r). The project arose out of the numerous requests made to WHO <br />and the World Bank by road safety practitioners around the world, especially those <br />working in low- and middle-income countries, asking for information to assist with <br />implementing the report's six recommendations. <br />Recommendations of the World report on road traffic injury prevention <br />1. Identify a lead agency in government to guide the national road traffic safety effort. <br />2. Assess the problem, policies, institutional settings and capacity relating to road <br />traffic injury. <br />3. Prepare a national road safety strategy and plan of action. <br />4. Allocate financial and human resources to address the problem. <br />5. Implement specific actions to prevent road traffic crashes, minimize injuries and <br />their consequences, and evaluate the impact of these actions. <br />6. Support the development of national capacity and international cooperation. <br />This collaboration has so far produced good practice manuals on helmets, seat-belts <br />and child restraints, speed, drinking and driving, and data systems. These manuals <br />are available on the website of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration <br />(UNRSC).' In addition to specific risk factors that have formed the content of the <br />manuals so far, research shows the need to address several risk factors facing specific <br />road users, such as pedestrians. The current manual is a response to this need, which <br />exists in many countries around the world. <br />' United Nations Road Safety Collaboration: http://www.who.int/roadsafety <br />XM <br />C <br />B <br />