Statement by Dmitry Mariyasin, UNECE Deputy Executive Secretary
(on behalf of the UN Regional Commissions)
Closing Session
UN General Assembly Supporting Event on Road Safety
New York, 3 December 2021
Read the Geneva solutions interview of Nneka Henry, Head of the UNRSF, by Kasmira Jefford.
The UNRSF Platforms of Engagement are multi-stakeholder networks of thought leaders working together to shape mobility in a safer and more sustainable way, focused on the SDGs in combination with road safety. There are six platforms: Low-Carbon Sustainable Cities; Education; Gender Equality; Health; Partnerships and Data; and Economic Growth. Platform members meet to discuss and share experiences, lessons learned and ideas on high-impact road safety projects that have strong potential to trigger substantial catalytic investments to reduce road traffic fatalities.
Thanks to the contribution of the UNRSF project on safer and cleaner used vehicles in Africa, there is a new European Commission proposal to improve regulation on waste shipments.
Read the UNRSF article in the UNDP blog, presenting the UNRSF social media campaign #moments2live4 for better investment in road safety, in line with the new Global Action Plan for Road safety.
The focus of this first meeting of the UNRSF Platform of Engagement on Health and Road safety is on the ongoing UNRSF-funded post-crash response projects being implemented in Azerbaijan and Bangladesh.
Each year, three hundred people die on the roads in Armenia, which has the region's highest road crash fatality rate. This is why the UNRSF project in Armenia, implemented by UNDP, collaborates with UNICEF and Armenia National SDG Innovation Lab aims to connect data, people, and policies for safer roads in the country.
Read the guest article by Ms. Nneka Henry, Head of the UNRSF, in the IISD-SDG Knowledge Hub.
