Funding opportunities
Taking up the challenge of United Nations and World Health Assembly resolutions to assist developing countries in the area of road safety, the World Bank has established a global road safety facility. The objective of this initiative is to create a fund to support those areas of global road safety for which there are currently limited resources. Globally, these areas include coordination, research and development of tools and products; nationally, they include the development of capacities, road safety strategies and national projects. As currently conceived, the three-year project will disburse $10 million through two separate funding streams, one for global work and one for national work. The initiative will initially be managed by the World Bank, with advisory input from a number of partner organizations.
The facility was launched during the 3rd UN Road Safety Collaboration meeting which was held in London in November 2005, hosted by the FIA Foundation.
