ROAD SAFETY CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOPKathmandu, Nepal

Road Safety Capacity and FinancingEr. Laxman K.C. & Er. Ashok Dhakal

Road Safety Challenges

o 2,541 road deaths & 4,144 serious injuries recorded in FY 2017-18

o Number of deaths increased by 26.6% in last two years (2015-2017)

o 40% of people killed in 2017/18 <26 years old

o 36% of all road fatality victims were pedestrians as recorded in 2016

o Economic loss from road crashes is huge about 0.8% of GNP (Road Safety Action Plan and WHO 2015).

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Deaths by user category (%)

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Road Deaths Per Year

2004 20062385 2541

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RTI Mortality per 100,000: • 30 to 5 in 40 years in

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Spatial Behavior

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Kathmandu Eastern Central Western Mid-Western Far-Western

2074/75

Total Road Accident Fatality

Road Crash Data: Spatial Behaviors Fiscal Year

Development Region

RTAFatalities

RTA Injuries Accidents

Serious Minor Nos. %

2005-06

KTM Valley 93 383 1673 1989 52%East 191 322 522 494 13%Central 213 491 527 486 13%Western 202 353 546 510 13%

Mid-western 51 213 293 248 7%

Far-western 78 104 94 87 2%

Total 828 1866 3655 3814 100%

2006-07

KTM Valley 93 491 2179 2097 46%East 166 383 651 506 11%Central 303 645 838 647 14%Western 226 549 1035 800 18%

Mid-western 91 335 404 358 8%

Far-western 74 180 231 137 3%

Total 953 2583 5338 4545 100%

2007-08

KTM Valley 120 611 2163 2211 48%East 235 475 829 704 15%Central 242 665 920 648 14%Western 341 520 920 624 13%

Mid-western 146 283 336 302 7%

Far-western 47 109 77 148 3%

Total 1131 2663 5245 4637 100%

Most of the crashes are occurred in KTM and low to far and mid western regions.

Major cause of crashes

o Quality of Physical infrastructure

o Inadequate communication campaigns

o Driver’s carelessness (77% of crashes cause)

o Vehicle speeding (12% of the crashes cause)

o Lack of road safety related policies and regulation

Photo taken: RSDP Roads

Existing Funding Mechanism on Road Safety Activities

Estimated Budget in million on RS (Excluding Admin.)

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2013/14 2013 - 16 2013 TO 20

1,244

2,798

6,965

Estimated Budget

Source: Road Safety Action Plan 2013 - 2020

DOR Budget Provision on Road Safety Item

49,324

72,195

89,286

248

851

162

171

643

104

FY: 2072/73

FY: 2073/74

FY: 2074/75

DOR Budget Allocation on Road Safety

Expenditure Allocated in Road Safety Total budget (in million)

In average, only 72% of the allocated budget were spent.

1KM of GR cost approx. 10 Million NRS

Road and Traffic Unit Budget Provision on RS

140 129

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Allocated Budget Expenditure

Approx.50% of the allocated budget were spent.

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Total Budget of RBN Budget Under Road Safety

Budget Provision of RBN on RS

Less than 4% budget for the RS

1KM of GR cost approx. 10 Million NRS

Capacity Building Activities

Location: In the Country

S/NType

(Seminar/Workshop/Training) Total Nos.Total

Paricpants

1 Training-cum-seminar - 1 day 4 67

Total training in the period = 518 3400% related to road-safety = 0.77% 1.97%

Location: Out of the Country

S/NType

(Seminar/Workshop/Training) Nos.Total

Paricpants1 Training - 1 day 1 2

2 Training - few days up to 1 week 5 9

3 Training - up to 2 weeks 2 3

4 Training - around 1 to 4 month 7 115 Master's degrees 3 36 Seminar 5 77 Study tour 1 2

Total = 24 37

Total training in this period= 263 346% related to road-safety = 9.1% 10.7%

Summary of Training for DOR Engineers (Jan. ’98 to 11 May ’09)

Source: Review of Road Safety Management Capacity in Nepal

Road Safety Support Project

o Road safety legislatives and policies related documents drafted Drafted Road Safety Act and its regulation Revision of Transport Policy Revision of motor vehicle and transport management act Revision of public road act and darting regulation Drafting Road crash database guideline and system Train-the-Trainer (TOT) Training on Road Safety Audit (39

participants) Road safety course at bachelor and master level

Capacity Building Activities of RSSP

Train –the-Trainer (TOT) Training Phase-I and II on Road Safety Audit, Kathmandu 2016 .

For Future long-term Road Safety leaders &

championsAltogether 39 participants trained from this program. Do you think all of them are on practice?

GR: RSDP Roads

Road Safety Pilot Project

TOT: On Road Safety

Vehicle protected by GR

What Next?

o Establishment of NRSC through the approval of road safety act

o Action plan update and development of sectoral (Pillar wise) business plan

o Drafting and approval of road safety related legal instruments

o Development several standards (Road Safety Audit Guidelines, Helmet Standards, barriers, warrant for signalization etc. etc.)

o Establishment of dedicated centers in different departments

o Adequate jobs should be created for retaining the knowledge

o There is a huge funding gap on road safety program and this sustainable funding mechanism should be established for meeting the road safety fund.

Thank You!

Existing policies and institutional arrangements

Nepal Road Safety Action Plan (2013 to 2020)

Establishment of National Road Safety Council (NRSC) – through executive order of council of ministers, GoN

Road safety course curricula in Institute of Engineering (IOE)

DoTM’s nine guidelines on vehicle conditions and operations

Several acts and policies including the road safety act has been drafted