Ten Step Plan - Tanzania
Tanzania is the first country to have deployed the UN Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) Ten Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure. A framework that provides countries with a step-by-step process to build national capacity for safer road infrastructure and helps them achieve the UN Global Voluntary Road Safety Performance Targets 3 and 4. The 36-month project has helped to embed change in how thousands of new and existing kilometres of Tanzania’s road network will be designed, upgraded and overall managed.
The overall goal of the Ten Step Plan project was to support Tanzania to build a lasting institutional capacity and regulatory framework to support safer road infrastructure. The project aimed to achieve five key outcomes:
- Improved knowledge about strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in institutional arrangements for infrastructure safety management.
- Improved institutional arrangements for infrastructure safety management.
- Improved capacity to manage and perform iRAP-specification assessment and road safety audit projects, and road engineering infrastructure safety knowledge.
- Reduced risk on key roads for all road user types.
- Evaluation of the impact of the first global deployment of the Ten Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure to support future deployments.
Jointly funded by the United Nations Road Safety Fund (UNRSF) and the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (UKAid), through the Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) of the World Bank, the project ran for 36 months with a total budget of roughly 785K USD. Under the guidance of UNECA, the project was implemented by a consortium led by the International Road Federation (IRF), and including the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), the World Road Association (PIARC) and the Tanzania Roads Association (TARA). The Ministry of Works and Transport (MoWT) was leading for the Government of Tanzania.