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

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 better safety performance especially when targets are ambitious, among others.

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

Understand the relationship between road design and risk. Learn why achieving the sustainable development goal target for road safety is important for countries.

The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) is dedicated to preventing the more than 3,500 road deaths that occur everyday worldwide. iRAP provides tools and training to help governments and organizations in more than 70 countries make roads safe.

Britta Monika Baer

Britta Monika Baer has worked with the World Health Organization since 2011, including the last four years as Technical Officer (gender, equity, human rights, and aging) in the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in Manila, Philippines. She supported the development of the Regional Framework for Action on Ageing and Health in the Western Pacific (2014-2019) and its endorsement by the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in 2013. As part of the Framework dissemination and implementation, Ms.

Universal Health Coverage in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Global Vision, Trends, and Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

Expand your knowledge on the process of developing the post-2015 development agenda. Learn the definition and measurement of progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). Analyze the implications in achieving UHC and the relevance of its inclusion in the post-2015 development agenda.