Countries: Tanzania

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 […]

Road Safety Activities with Primary Schools in Tanzania

Beginning in 2013, Amend partnered with Puma Energy Tanzania to carry out road safety activities with primary schools throughout Tanzania. This program involved working with over 70 schools in seven regions of Tanzania. It included teaching road safety education to more than 100,000 children, running road safety drawing competitions, forming road safety clubs with Puma […]

Road Safety Activities with Schools in Chanika, Dar es Salaam

We undertook road safety activities at four primary schools in the Chanika area of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The activities included: Tailored road safety education for all children at all four schools A road safety drawing competition, including an award ceremony and distribution of prizes to children and schools Incorporation of road safety activities in […]

Community Road Safety for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Tanzania: Scoping Study

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline is a 1,443-kilometer crude oil export infrastructure that will transport Uganda’s oil from Kabaale-Hoima in Uganda to the Chongoleani Peninsula in Tanga, Tanzania. Construction will generate high levels of traffic, therefore posing road safety risks to communities along the pipeline corridor and on the new the roads that will […]

Technical Assistance for Road Safety and Community Engagement in Rural Road Design

Amend provided technical assistance to the World Bank in the development of a model for “people-centered” community engagement in the improvement of rural roads in Tanzania. In the past, roads have typically been built with consideration only for drivers of vehicles. However, through this new model, road safety and other social risks facing all road […]

Enhancing understanding of safe motorcycle and three-wheeler use for rural transport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

The use of motorcycles has increased rapidly in many African countries in recent years. Motorcycles are commonly used as taxis, with the rider charging a fare to carry passengers or freight. In rural areas, motorcycle taxis play a crucial role in connecting people to services and farmers to markets, and in many countries motorcycles are […]

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 […]

Promoting EU visibility in the Tanzanian transport sector through road safety activities

Partnering with the European Union Delegation to Tanzania, Amend designed and implemented a road safety awareness campaign in Dar es Salaam. The campaign involved the following activities: A launch event and ceremony Training for members of the media on how to report road safety and other transport-related issues A radio message targeting motorcycle taxi riders […]