LASER International, Fleet Forum, in partnership with WAEMU, l’UNECA, the Center for Disease Control (USA), the Ministry of Telecommunications, Tics, Rail and Ground Transportation and Health Ministry are organizing the Regional African Road Safety Forum held in Dakar (SENEGAL) from May 4th to 5th 2010. Mr Ousman Conteh will represent the Gambia Youth Parliament and YOURS during this African Forum.
Following the former “Sub Regional Road Safety Forum”, the targets of this Road Safety “Regional Conference” that will host major African countries, International guests and experts from global institutions, will be:
- To offer participants best practices in the area of safe, clean and healthy transport.
- To inform participants about successful public-private partnerships in the area of transport
- To gain insights in sustainable solutions which will lead to effective transport
- To reinforce the commitment of West African countries in United Nations ‘s “Decade of Action for Road Safety” through the settlement of a Regional Action plan inaccordancewith the Declaration of Moscow” ratified in November 2009
The Road safety Regional Forum, like the four conferences recommended by the UNRSC thus answers a new emergency of public health and development: to mobilize in order to reverse the dramatic trends of increase in road fatalities, on developing countries roads, in the upcoming years, whereas those countries are already concerned with 90% of global road deaths.
By organizing this First Regional Road safety Forum of the African countries with its partners, Senegal reaffirms his strong commitment in this “Decade of Actions for Road safety” adopted by “the Moscow Declaration” and voted by resolution in the United Nations.
It is time to integrate road safety as a key development issue and it is essential to find together regional solutions to the specific road safety issues.
Mr Ousman Conteh, YOURS Youth Taskforce member, will give a 10 minute presentation about his achievements in The Gambia, in partnership with the Youth Parliament and the Red Cross.