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 […]

EACOP Community Road Safety Program

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is a $5 billion infrastructure project stretching 1,443 kilometers from Uganda’s Lake Albert oilfields to the port of Tanga in Tanzania. As the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline, its construction phase, ongoing until the end of 2026, will introduce millions of vehicle miles to the region’s roads, […]

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 […]

Motorcycle Safety for Young People in Tanzania

From September 2023 to August 2024, Amend, with support from the Embassy of Switzerland in Tanzania, executed a comprehensive road safety initiative targeting motorcycle safety for young people in Tanga and Dodoma. Building on prior efforts funded by Fondation Botnar, this project focused on improving motorcycle safety and creating safer environments for vulnerable road users. […]

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 […]

Road safety design audit for improved road safety standards

The Dar es Salaam Metropolitan Development Project (DMDP) is a multi-year project between the Government of Tanzania and the World Bank that addresses mobility challenges in Dar es Salaam through road construction and other measures. Amend was contracted by the World Bank to conduct community consultation and technical audits to strengthen safety measures for the […]

Road Safety Activities on the High Volume Transport Applied Research Programme

The High Volume Transport Applied Research Programme supports Amend to undertake a number of road safety activities: Attendance at the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Stockholm, in February 2020 Strengthening civil society around road safety in Malawi, training and supporting a local organization to deliver road safety education and establish Kids’ Courts Establishing […]

Safe and Healthy Journeys to School in Africa

In 2020, Amend and the FIA Foundation continued our partnership of more than a decade with a project involving the following: An Amend School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) implementation at Oblogo Cluster of schools in Accra, Ghana where several children have been killed and many injured in the last two years. We […]

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