Innovation Supported by the Cotswold Foundation
The Cotswold Foundation has supported Amend in Tanzania with small annual grants each year since 2017. These grants have allowed us to trial small and interesting projects and studies, some of which have gone on to become established areas of our program work. Examples include: A study to understand the impact of “community feel” road […]
Safe Roads to Primary and Secondary Schools in Tanzania
For many school children in Tanzania, the journey to and from school is difficult and potentially dangerous. To get to school, many children have to walk along and cross busy roads, with the risk of being hit by a car, motorcycle or other vehicle. Other challenges include sexual harassment and poor or damaged infrastructure, especially […]
Safe Schools Africa
Billions of US dollars are invested in road development projects in Africa each year. Yet, despite existing safeguards, roads that fail to meet the minimum 3-star safety standard are still being built. Traditionally, the focus of road engineers in Africa has been on providing for vehicles – even though only a minority of people own […]
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. […]
Safe and Healthy Journeys to School for Children and Adolescents in Tanga, Tanzania
Prior to this project, at almost 40% of primary schools in Tanga, Tanzania, at least one child had been injured on the roads in the previous 12 months. Through this project, we worked to improve road safety for children and adolescents in Tanga, thereby allowing them — and the city’s general population — to benefit […]
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 […]