Research Assistant on Road Safety in the Arab Region

Client of United Nation careers

Background

The Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2PHONE_NUMBER, endorsed by the UN General Assembly, aims to halve road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030. It emphasizes a Safe System approach, focusing on safer roads, vehicles, road users, and post-crash care. Infrastructure must be designed to minimize risks for all road users, particularly the most vulnerable, and support multimodal mobility, including walking, cycling, and public transport. ESCWA supports several Arab countries in reviewing and updating their road safety policies and measures through various project that are targeting different areas of the road safety domain from road design to data collection and analysis to awareness and policy making, among others.

Objective

The objective of this assignment is to support the review and enhancement of road safety measures in several Arab countries, ensure alignment with international standards and global plans for road safety including but not limited to the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2PHONE_NUMBER. This includes implementing a review of road design standards, building a digital form for crash investigation, advocate for policy alternations, building capacities of concerned officials to use modern technologies for road safety management, among others.

Duties and responsibilities

The IC will be required to do the following tasks:

• Research, compiles, analyses, summarizes, and presents basic information/data related to activities on Road Safety issues in the Arab region.
• Systematically follows through and retrieves, highlights and compiles information on Road Safety in a wide variety of information sources; prepares inputs on the subject as required.
• Participate in the delivery of required activities on Road Safety policies.
• Prepare statistical tables and graphs and assist in the preparation of presentations and background substantive material on Road - Safety related deliverables.
• Undertake specific analyses on selected subjects related to Road Safety.
• Develop manuals, policy papers, guides, to use certain road safety tools.
• Assist in Project management tasks.
• Carry out any other related duties as required.