This document summarizes attendees, agenda and outcomes of the 2nd workshop held in Nigeria which had an intense focus on the definition of a minimum number of crash-related variables to be collected at the country level. It also rose awareness of the many country-level evaluations conducted by one agency or another in recent years in the continent regarding road safety and road safety data issues.
Hosted by Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development, the 2019 SSATP Annual Meeting took take place in Victoria Falls on November 25-29, 2019. The central theme of this year’s SSATP General Assembly taking place on November 29th was “Positioning Africa for a Sustainable Post-2020 Road Safety Agenda.”
The Annual Meeting of the Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) was held in Abuja, Nigeria during the week of July 2-6, 2018. Over 250 participants attended the meeting from 30 countries (11 Ministers, 6 Permanent Secretaries), 7 Regional Economic Communities (ECOWAS, SADC, CEEAC, UEMOA, EAC, COMESA, IGAD), and 11 International Financing Institutions and Development Partners (EU, AfDB, AFD, WBG, GIZ, ISDB, UNECA, IRU, JICA, USAID, AUC).
Throughout its activities on many corridors in Africa, the SSATP had the opportunity to witness the diversity of the approaches and solutions adopted to improve corridor performance, but also to note that several corridors were struggling with challenges that had been successfully addressed on other corridors.
The Africa Transport Policy Program and the Government of Senegal are pleased to announce that the 2013 Annual Meeting and the first Africa Transport Policy Forum will take place in Dakar, Senegal from December 10-12, 2013
The first Africa Transport Policy Forum will take place on December 10-11, 2013. It is a 2-day learning event that will give participants a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss high-priority transport policy issues in Africa. This event will be open to all interested participants.
The African Union Commission (AUC) and the Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP, an international partnership administered by the World Bank) with the support of South Africa’s Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) and the United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (UNECA) are hosting the First General Assembly of the African Road Safety Observatory (ARSO) at the Fairmont Zimbali Resort in Durban, South Africa on the 27-28 June 2019.
As part of its Urban Transport and Mobility Pillar capacity building activities, SSATP in collaboration with the Leaders in Urban Transport Planning (LUTP) team hosted by the World Bank Group is organizing a Leaders in Urban Transport Training Program. The first session was organized for Anglophone member countries of the Africa Transport Policy Program. The LUTP training aims to help technocrats understand policy options for improving the urban transport and mobility situation in African cities.
The Regional Economic Communities Transport Coordination Committee (REC-TCC) facilitated by SSATP is the premier forum providing the Africa regional integration and trade facilitation community the opportunity to review progress on their respective programs, exchange experience and coordinate their activities.
Last year in Nairobi, the REC-TCC articulated a priority work program under SSATP's newly launched Third Development Plan (DP3), covering notably the following activities:
SSATP presented its urban mobility and accessibility policy paper at the XVIth CODATU Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey on February 2, 2015.
SSATP was member of the panel on “Urban transport and climate change” during a plenary session attended by approximately 300 participants on the opening day of the conference. SSATP also contributed to the breakout session on urban mobility in Africa with about 80 participants on February 5th.
The SSATP General Assembly which met in Nairobi, Kenya on October 31, 2014 had the following objectives:
