Project Overview
Strengthening Seatbelt and Speed Management Regulations Through Legislation Reviews, Advocacy, and Public Awareness-Raising Interventions.
The overall purpose of this project is to reduce road traffic fatalities and injuries by strengthening seatbelt legislation and management of speed through advocating for legal reviews, effective enforcement, and public awareness for sustained compliance. The project has been ongoing from January 2023 to June 2024 and is funded by the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP).
The scope of work includes:
- Rapid assessment to establish evidence-based data regarding current seatbelt and speed management regulations;
- Mapping of Seat-belt and speed management regulations decision and policymakers;
- Review of the existing legal frameworks on seat-belt and speed management regulations;
- One-on-one and Round-table meetings to discuss seat-belt regulation
- Building strong partnerships between MDAs, the business community, and CSOs to support the campaigns.
Achievements
Some of the achievements include;
- The URRENO has so far developed IEC materials, printed, and run social media campaigns targeting the general public. This has been a continuous activity in the lifecycle of the project with several engagements on its social-media platforms of Twitter, in newspapers, radio, and TV adverts.
- Review of the existing Acts and regulations on speed management, seat belt standards, reports, and studies focusing on recommendations on best practices in speed reduction. The reason for this undertaking was to identify the gaps in the current regulation for speed. For example, the current legal regime doesn’t consider other factors like population, vulnerability, and the existence of schools, markets, and churches, among other factors. The biggest output of this activity is evidence-based information that has supported the reduction of 50km/h to 30km/h in specific areas. The new speed regulation has been validated by the Ministry of Works and Transport (MoWT) now awaiting gazetting by the Attorney General of Uganda into a law.
