Safe Schools Africa

Billions of US dollars are invested in road development projects in Africa each year. But unfortunately, despite the existence of important safeguards, roads that do not meet the minimum 3-star standard for safety are still being built.  Traditionally, the focus of roads engineers in Africa has been on providing for vehicles, despite the fact that […]

Be Road Safe Africa

The Be Road Safe Africa program, a collaboration between Puma Energy and Amend, aims to improve road safety for primary school children across Sub-Saharan Africa. The program focuses on education and community engagement to raise awareness among students, policy makers and the general public about the importance of road traffic injuries as a public health […]

Secondary School Road Safety Education: The VIA Program

VIA is a comprehensive road safety education program for secondary school students developed by the TotalEnergies Foundation and its partners. Amend adapted VIA to the African context and delivered the program to 120 secondary school children at two schools in each of Dakar, Senegal and Lomé, Togo and at one school in each of Dar […]

Commercial Motorcycle Rider Training

In September 2020, Amend and the TotalEnergies Foundation embarked on a multi-phase project to develop a commercial motorcycle rider training program, pilot it and then roll it out in multiple African countries. There are an estimated 27 million motorcycles in Africa, with around 80% of these being used commercially as motorcycle-taxis or for deliveries. Taking […]

Kids’ Court Road Safety Interventions: Their impact on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Maputo, Mozambique

An evaluation of Amend’s Kids’ Court program, through which children are empowered to act as “judges,” questioning drivers who are caught speeding, talking on a mobile phone, or failing to wear a seat belt outside their school. The evaluation, which involved key informant interviews and focus group discussions with participating children, teachers, drivers, police officers, […]

Road Safety Advocacy in Mozambique

In 2017 and 2018, Amend partnered with Puma Energy Mozambique to carry out road safety advocacy in Maputo. During 2017, activities focused on primary schools, with road safety education, a road safety drawing competition, and distribution of reflector-enhanced school bags. During 2018, activities involved hosting a high-level road safety roundtable meeting for government and other […]

Safe school area infrastructure and 30 km/h advocacy in nine countries in Africa

The Puma Energy Foundation, the FIA Foundation, and Amend came together from January 2017 to December 2019 on a project to save children’s lives across nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with safe infrastructure and safe school zone advocacy. The program countries were Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia. During the […]

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