Attachm <br />Pedestrian safety: a road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners <br />Attach <br />M oDuj F i provided a comprehensive overview and examples of the key <br />interventions that can be implemented to improve pedestrian safety, <br />emphasizing the need to integrate engineering, enforcement and educational <br />approaches. This module goes on to discuss how to evaluate their impact as well as <br />advocate for pedestrian safety. <br />The module is divided into two sections: <br />5.1 Evaluating pedestrian safety interventions: This section provides key principles <br />for evaluating pedestrian safety interventions. It discusses the importance of planning <br />in advance of evaluation and provides examples of indicators that may be used for <br />process, output and outcome evaluation of pedestrian safety interventions. <br />5.2 Advocating for pedestrian safety: This section presents key principles and <br />examples of pedestrian safety advocacy. It emphasizes the need for a strategic <br />approach that includes a sustained effort over a period of time, prioritizing focal <br />areas, building coalitions, promoting evidence-based solutions and reviewing progress. <br />5.1 Evaluating pedestrian safety interventions <br />Evaluation is a critical component of pedestrian safety interventions. A thorough <br />evaluation, properly implemented, measures the effectiveness of the programme <br />and assesses whether the desired outcomes are being achieved. It can enable the <br />identification of success as well as constraints, and provide insights on how to adjust <br />programmes so that targets are achieved. The results of evaluation are key inputs for <br />decision-makers involved in pedestrian safety programmes. They also provide the <br />content for dissemination and improvement of ideas and initiatives, and contribute <br />to international learning. <br />There may be some variation in the specific ways different agencies plan, choose <br />evaluation methods and disseminate results, but the basic principles to bear in mind <br />on evaluation of pedestrian safety programmes remain the same (r): <br />Plan the evaluation. Ensure that monitoring and evaluation are included in any <br />pedestrian safety plan (see Module 3), strategy or intervention at the national or local <br />level. It is better to plan for evaluation from the beginning rather than doing so once <br />implementation has begun. Determining the aims of evaluation, type of evaluation <br />and indicators to adopt during the planning phase of a programme will improve the <br />ultimate quality of the evaluation. <br />Identify existing monitoring and evaluation activities in your setting, and the agencies <br />that are responsible for these activities. This exercise helps with identification of <br />relevant existing data and can develop partnerships with the existing agencies in <br />monitoring and evaluation. Collect baseline data using surveys and existing databases <br />if they exist. <br />97 <br />