Road safety curriculum for Africa. Deliverable 6.1

Abstract

The specific aims of WP6 was to identify training needs and to develop capacity building programs on road safety in African countries. This deliverable will formulate the major issues for developing a curriculum for road safety experts in Africa. The different tasks to reach the final goal of this deliverable, are summarized in the following figure (...) On the one hand, the available knowledge and education in Europe (but also worldwide) was gathered. On the other hand, the same was done for Africa and also the different needs and training issues were analysed. Although we could not get information from each country or every existing high level educational institutes, there was enough material to make some analysis and conclusions. Not in every African country, high level education for different professionals (engineers, economics, …) includes a specific road safety module. Only at a few universities (South-Africa, Morocco, Ghana and Kenia) the curriculum for civil engineers includes a road safety module. Some institutions provide such a module as a post graduate training. A lot of African experts followed courses provided by international universities (Delft, Hasselt, …), or organized by companies working in Africa (Renault, FedEx,…). Worldwide a lot of E-learning modules are available. The deliverable gives an overview of the courses for Low and Middle Income countries (LMIC) and the different E-learning courses for professionals in English, French and Portuguese. To get a clear view on the educational needs, we developed a questionnaire (see annex 3). Unfortunately, the response was very low. Additional we made a limited literature review on the specific road safety issues in African countries. Both sources provide us with a good insight in the needs for education and training, as well as concerning the content as concerning some structural