Performance in the implementation of the African Road Safety Action Plan has varied across countries and pillars. While some activities have been fully implemented, others are in progress or have not received any significant action. Road safety actions in Africa in the next decade will therefore be guided by the principles of continuity, sustainability and innovation. Countries on the continent have to ensure that measures that they have taken are effective in curbing road deaths and that their road safety legislations are comprehensive, covering all risk factors, and enforced. They also have to continue implementing activities that are in progress, drawing from best practices on the continent and beyond. Above all, they need to focus on activities of the 2011-2020 Action plan that received insignificant action during the decade. In this regard, concerted efforts are required to put in place sustainable funding mechanisms for road safety; ensure that fully empowered lead road safety agencies become operational; national road safety strategies are developed with clearly articulated targets; and the effectiveness of road safety data management is improved. To that end, countries are expected to increasingly use state-of-the-art data management tools.

Table of contents: Section 2 provides the context in which this final review is undertaken. Section 3 outlines the methodology of the review. Section 4 presents the findings of the review and Section 5 concludes the report.

Selected Ethiopia highlight: Table 4 shows that that number of registered vehicles increased by more than 40% between 2013 and 2016 in countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria. Several other countries recorded increases of more than 20% during that period.