Local Road Safety Plans (LRSP) for 18 municipalities in the department of Cundinamarca

According to the World Health Organisation, road crashes are one of the leading causes of death in all age groups: around 1.3 million people die annually on the world's roads, and between 20 and 50 million suffer non-fatal injuries. [1] In this context, the National Government has adopted Road Safety as a priority and State policy, thus establishing the "National Road Safety Plan", for which the National Road Safety Agency (ANSV) has been supporting Territorial Entities (TE) in the last two years to formulate their Local Road Safety Plans (LRSP).

Based on the above, Steer was commissioned by the NRSA to provide technical assistance in the formulation of Local Road Safety Plans (LRSP) for 18 municipalities in the department of Cundinamarca.

The plans are tools that allow administrative entities to propose programmes and strategies to mitigate the problems associated with road safety in the territory. The formulation of the LRSPs was developed in three key stages: diagnosis, formulation, and socialisation.

• Participatory diagnosis in terms of road safety for each municipality based on an analysis of secondary information and participatory methodologies. The study of secondary information included the socio-economic issue, where factors such as population distribution and the economic activities carried out in the territory were identified. Regarding road safety, statistical analyses were carried out of the reported accident figures and a review of the national and departmental roads that affect the road dynamics of the municipalities. On the other hand, focus groups, social mapping and stakeholder mapping were carried out to identify the problems perceived by the territory's inhabitants. 
• Formulation framed within the methodology defined in the national public policy instruments on road safety issues. This included the definition of three components: strategic, implementation and monitoring, under the premise of the safe system, framed in the eight areas of action presented in the following figure.

Source: NRSA (WHO, 2017) and (World Resources Institute, 2018).

• Socialisation, where the different actors interested in the Local Road Safety Plans were convened to share the consultancy product. In the first place, it was socialised with the administrative entities of each municipality, receiving relevant feedback from them. In addition, the administration extended the invitation to the Citizen Mobilisation Groups for Road Safety, formed within the framework of this consultancy.

Through the results of this project, Steer accompanied the National Government in its commitment to road safety. This is by providing 18 municipalities with tools to plan, articulate and manage road safety and thus contribute to fulfilling the National Road Safety Plan (NRSP 2022 - 2031) and its goal of reducing deaths and injuries resulting from road crashes in the country by 50%.

[1] World Health Organization (2017). 10 Facts about road safety around the world, available in <https://www.who.int/features/factfiles/roadsafety/es/>