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CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT TO LINK THE EVIDENCE BASE TO IMPROVING

REGULATION INROAD TRAFFIC INJURY PREVENTION

Dr Margie Peden and Ms Evelyn MurphyDepartment for the Management of Noncommunicable

Diseases, Disability, Violence & Injury Prevention

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Laws and regulations

l Why are laws/regulations needed in road safety– Evidence based laws + education + enforcement has led to reductions

in RTI and fatalities.

l What an evidence-based law entails?– Understanding what the evidence is– Appreciating challenges to application in country context until after the

fact

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Stepwise approach – 1

l The country context (institutional, regulatory and legislative)– Who is tasked with doing what, when and how?– Who is involved in the process – government, civil society, other non-

state actors

l Country status on regulation (from GSRRS and in-country assessments and reports)

– Legislative and regulatory gaps

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Stepwise approach – 2

l Identify key groups to work with

l Conduct capacity needs assessment of identified

l Design a programme that offers multiple learning opportunities to target group(s)

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Country support under Bloomberg Funded project

l 2008-2010 à Pilot projects in Vietnam and Mexico involving support for legislative improvement, enforcement, media engagement + M&E

l 2010-2014à multi-country project (Brazil, Cambodia, China, India, Kenya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam).

– Same components as above

l 2015-2019à China, Philippines Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam, involving support for legislative improvement and media engagement

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Law and regulations

review, assessment and recommendati

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r and political mapping

Amendment/New laws

or regulations

Advocating for

policy change

Legislative change model

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Capacity development in the project

Offering ad hoc technical support

Developing and running skills and knowledge-based

workshops for target group of nominated

individuals

Designing and implementing a Legal

Development Programme targeted at

a semi-competitively selected group

2008-2010 2011-2014 2005-2019

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Lessons learned from legislation workshops

l Building knowledge and skills of participants = improvement drafting and advocating for change..

l Long term engagement with key individuals = – Improved knowledge and skills, – stronger commitment to the issue, – stronger engagement in programme, and – builds long-term relationships.

l Need for expanding the range of targeted learning opportunities.

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Road Safety Legal Development Programme (2015-2019)?

l Engagement over the long-term of Members from multiple-sectors to contribute to and advocate for regulatory and legislative improvements.

l From LDP Members

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Improveü Overall RTI/road safety

knowledge.ü Skills and knowledge for

content analysis, developing recommendations, and monitoring changes.

Contribute toü Body of literature on road safety

legislation.ü Meaningful participation in country

seminars and workshops to improve laws and regulations.

ü Advocate for evidence-based laws.

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Capacity development programmes

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Resources for different purpose and audience

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Journalism Fellowship

l 10-15 competitively selected Fellows = much higher level of interest, motivation and commitment.

l Ongoing for a sustained period (3-8 months, depending on funding) with weekly contacts and key milestones events.

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Capacity development programmes

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Online resources for journalists

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/ publications/road_traffic/media_brief/en/

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What do we hope to achieve from the Journalism Fellowship?

lMedia advocacy overall– Support legislative change process through media.– Place key messages, on key media, at key times.

lFrom the participants– Increase their level of independent and reduce

dependence on ad-hoc media briefs, press releases or key stakeholders pushing information to them.

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Soon to come

l Expanding the reach of capacity development to bridge the gap between policy experts and legal experts.

l WHO-JHU road safety legislation online course will be released soon. It will target civil society and lawyers with limited experience in road safety related legislation to be exposed to:

– Road safety global policy context– Evidence and proven interventions– How these interventions should be used to formulate good

laws/regulations– How to advocate and engage with media to improve laws and regulations

l Meeting of parliamentarians : 12 December 2016 in London

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E-learning course for legislators

Watch this space!

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Thank you

@margiepeden and @unrsc