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Using Technology to Making Cities Safer: The Case of Safetipin

14 September 2016
Safetipin is a map-based online and mobile phone application that works to make communities and cities safer. It collects and disseminates safety-related information on a large scale through crowdsourcing and other methods.

Community-Based Rural Road Safety Output

14 September 2016
Learn about the Rural Roads Improvement Project in Cambodia supported by ADB. The project used a three-stream approach in the form of safe school zone, data collection analysis, and social enforcement.

Women’s Personal Security and Public Transport: Why is This of Interest?

14 September 2016
Learn more about women and their transport needs. Freedom of movement, mobility rights, or the right to travel are part of the concept of basic human rights. However, a worrying number of incidents are reported globally, and women are now becoming more vocal about these unacceptable behaviors.…

Sustainable Mobility for All Towards Implementation

14 September 2016
The World Bank Group facilitates Sustainable Mobility for All through its four objectives of universal access, efficiency, safety, and green. The aim is to achieve improved lives and livelihoods of billions of people across the world—their health, environment, and quality of life—and stabilize…

Star Rating - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure

12 September 2016
Risk factors, sometimes called crash modification factors (CMF), are used by International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) in its methodology to relate road attributes and risk of death and serious injury. Learn how to use iRAP’s Star Rating Demonstrator to produce star ratings that can help…

Sustainable Development Goal - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure

12 September 2016
Targets like those reflected in the global sustainable development goals are important because they provide strategic focus for road safety. Research and experience show that long-term goals and targets provide better management of strategies and programs, improved quality of safety programs, and…

Case Studies - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure

12 September 2016
The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) is used for setting road safety targets, assessing existing road networks and tracking infrastructure risk over time, evaluating safety benefits of road projects, assessing risk for design iterations, and conducting post-construction evaluations.…

What Makes Social Protection Systems Adaptive?

6 September 2016
Poor households are more likely to be affected by disasters, and have been found to lose relatively more than non-poor people. Adaptive social protection programs can protect poor households from climate and other shocks.

New Financing Approaches, Instruments and Opportunities that Address the Risks of Loss and Damage

6 September 2016
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the insurance industry has been working with institutional investors in promoting risk modelling beyond insurance. The aim is to offer parametric risk transfer to organizations (e.g., NGOs, development banks, microfinance providers, municipalities…

Disaster Risk Finance Insurance incl. Cat and Resilience Bonds

6 September 2016
No country can fully insulate itself against extreme natural disasters, despite prevention and mitigation efforts. A balanced mix of financing, therefore, is needed.