Nigeria: The Accra Declaration

11 January 2014
opinion

Safe Driving With Jonas Agwu Last week I promised to look into the details of some of the initiatives embarked upon not just by the Federal Road Safety Corps but also within the West African Sub Region. My first focus is on the Accra Declaration of February 2007 which I mentioned in passing in the piece, "My 2014 Agenda". This was the fallout of the African Ministers of Transport and Health meeting in Ghana where they adopted the 'Accra Declaration' which fully endorsed the main recommendations of the "Make Road Safe" report of the Commission for Global Road Safety. The Declaration also called on the G8 summit in Germany to "recognize the urgent need to improve road safety in Africa, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa; systematically include road safety in the work of the Africa Infrastructure Consortium; the Sub Saharan Africa Transport Policy Programme; and in the development of assistance programmes of the G8 nations to ensure that new and improved roads in Africa do not increase road traffic death and injuries"

The Accra Declaration was adopted at the 4th UN African Road Safety Congress which was held in the Ghanaian capital on February 6-8 on the theme 'Road Safety and the Millennium Development Goals: Reducing the Rate of Accident Fatality by Half by 2015'. It was attended by over 200 delegates and 25 Ministers from across the continent and the Congress was jointly organised by the Economic Commission from Africa (ECA) and the WHO with support from the FIA Foundation, SIDA (the Swedish Development Agency) and the UK's Department for International Development.

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