Road Safety Education Program (RSEP) - Supported by the Road Sector Development Directorate (RSDD) and Asian Development Bank (ADB)
The Road Safety Education Program - a project that is the first of its kind in Pakistan - has been launched by the Road Sector Development Directorate (RSDD) with the support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) has been selected as the implementing agency of the program.
Program Objectives:
This pioneering program (pioneering because it is the first road safety education prgram) aims at imparting road safety education to children in schools and to related stakeholders such as parents, teachers, local government officials, policy makers and future partners of the project, i.e. the private and civil sector.
Program Outreach:
The program will be executed in 100 government and community based schools across Sehwan, Dadu, Larkana and Khairpur districts of Sindh. These areas have been given priority in this pilot phase as the National Highway (a hi-traffic and popularly used highway of Sindh) runs through these districts. Several students and community members run the risk of living their lives too close to these hi-traffic roads, as a result of which the rate of accidents in these specific areas is very high. The project will be implemented for a period of 1 year stretching from August 2006 to July 2007. The program will benefit an estimated 10,000 students, teachers and community members across the target areas.
Program Action Plan:
The Road Safety Education Program is divided into three principal components: training and capacity building, advocacy and awareness building and monitoring and research. The Sindh Education Foundation will be training teachers, community members and local government officials on inculcating road safety practices and policies amongst children and ensuring a safe road environment within the surrounding area. Various resource materials will be developed and events will be organized to increase public awareness (especially amongst children) on road safety. The Foundation will also organize various policy-level forums at the district and provincial level in order to advocate for greater support of road safety interventions for children. Under this innovative program the Sindh Education Foundation will also be collecting and analyzing information on road risks related to children and other road users and awareness level of stakeholders on integral road safety rules and regulations. So far there have been very few such studies carried out in the country and almost none conducted in Sindh.
To read more about the program Click here to RSEP website
