This project aims to provide the necessary tools, materials, capacity building and technical assistance to ESCWA member states to improve police road crashes data which is considered the main source of information. 

Road traffic fatalities and serious injuries represent a global public health problem, especially for the Arab region, where fatality rate due to road crashes was estimated at 18.91 fatalities per 100,000 people in 2016, more than the world average of 18.2 fatalities per 100,000 people and more than 3 times the average registered for the European region, which is 5.9 fatalities per 100,000 people.

As such, this project aims to provide the necessary tools, materials, capacity building and technical assistance to ESCWA member states to improve police road crashes data which is considered as the main source of information. 

This project aims to strengthen the technical capacities of Arab countries to establish an effective and sustainable evidence-based policymaking for road safety through:

• the establishment of common and standardized processes, methods and tools for efficient recording, processing and analysis of disaggregated data on road crashes fatalities and injuries in the Arab region;
• providing adequate training, capacity building and technical assistance to ESCWA Member States through the exchange of experiences and lessons learned between three pilot countries representing the geographic diversity of the region (Tunisia in North Africa, Lebanon in the Mashreq and Qatar in the Gulf).