Geneva, 4 May 2025 — The UN Road Safety Fund (UNRSF) today published its 2025 Annual Impact Report, documenting seven years of catalytic investment in road safety across 100+ countries. The results reflect a partnership that is demonstrably greater than the sum of its parts. The 2025 report demonstrates what becomes possible when sustained investment, coordinated action, and political will come together: governments leading, systems changing, and results that compound year on year.
What this report shows is not just growth in numbers but a qualitative shift. Governments are no longer only receiving support; their capacity has strengthened to take results forward with their own resources, their own budgets, and their own political commitment.
Across all five impact pathways — high-risk factors, safer vehicles, national road safety systems, safer and greener streets, and emergency care — UNRSF-funded projects focus on upstream investment that translates into concrete downstream government action. These pathways are essential to supporting Member States in achieving SDG target 3.6 to halve the number of road traffic deaths by 2030.
What the results show
In 2025, UNRSF supported projects influenced system change in 58 countries and 88 municipalities. For every USD 1 invested in projects selected in 2024, an additional USD 1.37 was mobilised in co-financing. Across 56 active projects in over 100 countries, governments moved from commitment to implementation, adopting policies, strengthening institutions, and scaling interventions.
Selected results from across the portfolio bring this to life:
In Africa, 17 countries and over 200 million people are benefiting from Euro 6/VI vehicle emission and safety standards adopted for used vehicle imports
In India, across four States, 233 million people will be covered by district road safety action plans.
In Brazil, USD 163,000 in UNRSF funding in one state helped unlock a USD 1.5 billion national road safety programme.
In Cambodia, 100,439 garment workers are protected by a factory road safety policy.
In Southeast Asia, three countries took regulatory action to adopt life-saving Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) technology for motorcycles — which can reduce fatal crashes by up to 31%.
In Kyrgyzstan, the Ministry of Transport formally adopted Safe and Inclusive Road Design Guidance as national policy — a milestone now being replicated across Central Asia.
In Kenya, fatalities along a pilot corridor fell by 10.39% thanks to UNRSF partnership on The Global Alliance of Cities for Road Safety. The project targeted public transport drivers and passengers from vulnerable communities, teaching safe driving techniques and basic first aid. Benchmarked against 2021–2023 baseline data averaging 1.86 deaths per month, the Nakuru–Eldoret corridor recorded a reduced monthly fatality rate of 1.33, a 10.39% reduction in mortality.
In the Americas, 816 emergency care professionals were trained across nine countries in Basic Emergency Care, following WHO emergency care tools and protocols.
A model for UN coordination
The UNRSF brings together 21 UN member organisations under a single coordinated framework. As the UN80 reform moves toward greater UN coherence and efficiency, the Fund demonstrates in practice what reform looks like: reduced fragmentation, aligned mandates, and collective action around a shared goal. No single agency could deliver this reach or this leverage alone.
Looking ahead: 2026–2030
As the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030 enters its final phase, the 2026–2030 UNRSF strategy marks a shift from delivering pilot results – in sustainable domestic financing, implementing the Safe System Approach, and mainstreaming road safety into the broader SDG agenda – to building on and scaling those results. The upcoming 2026 UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Road Safety and the UNRSF Pledging Conference – the only side event to be explicitly referenced in the UNGA modalities resolution to the High-Level Meeting represents a critical opportunity. The solutions are known. The partnerships are in place. What is needed now is the investment to match the ambition.
Read the full 2025 Annual Impact Report