Pedestrian Action Plan for Accra, Ghana
From August 2017 to November 2019 Amend partnered with the World Resources Institute and the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety on an advocacy project in Accra, Ghana with a clear goal: the development and release of a Pedestrian Road Safety Action Plan for Accra and subsequent follow up. The Action Plan was developed […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Partnership for Healthy Cities – Safe School Zone Infrastructure
The Partnership for Healthy Cities, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and managed by Vital Strategies, supports cities in the planning and implementation of projects to strengthen non-communicable disease and injury prevention. The Partnership for Healthy Cities work in 2018 in Zambia was focused on road safety, but the consortium was having difficulty making progress on the […]
Safe School Infrastructure and 30km/h School Zone Advocacy
Over a three-year period, Amend and FedEx have partnered to implement Amend’s lifesaving School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) program around schools and to advocate for safe 30 km/h school zones in Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia. High risk schools in Gaborone, Botswana; Lilongwe, Malawi; Windhoek, Namibia; and Lusaka, Zambia received SARSAI, and […]
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 […]
A study to determine the causes and circumstances of motorcycle crashes on low-volume rural roads in Tanzania
Through detailed crash investigations, risk assessments, interviews and inspections, this study aimed to determine the causes and circumstances of motorcycle crashes on low-volume rural roads in Tanzania, to inform the development of targeted road safety policies and interventions. View final project report here.