School Road Safety Education in Uganda: Progress and Lessons Learned Tumwine Fred Nkuruho1, Cuthbert Isingoma2 and Teresa Senserrick3 1Uganda Road Accident Reduction Network Organisation (URRENO), Kampala, Uganda 2Uganda Road Accident Reduction Network Organisation (URRENO), Kampala, Uganda 3Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland,... Read More
This project funded by Youth for Road Safety (YOURS) and implemented by the youth team of URRENO has been ongoing since (April 2023 – March 2024) focusing on promoting Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) Infrastructure Usage in Kampala and sensitizing people on the realities road users face on Ugandan roads. The project... Read More
Uganda’s road infrastructure is generally unsafe with most of the roads being single carriage way without a median. This easily results into many head-on collisions since most roads lack facilities for Non-Motorized users. According to the Uganda Road Safety Performance review (2018), the last decade alone recorded that road crash... Read More
In the world of advocacy, different strategies are put to play before results/ impacts of the drive are witnessed. For road safety, different stakeholders have implemented advocacies through awareness raising, advocating for review of regulations among others, in order to bring down the increasing road carnage statistics in Uganda that... Read More
Following the Saturday motorcycle/bodaboda sensitization session that was carried out at the Kitooro Market, we joined the Nicole foundation team to celebrate their two-year anniversary. Starting off the celebration was a team from St. Mark Church of Uganda Entebbe which led us in prayer according to the day’s agenda. We... Read More
The Nicole Foundation, a road safety Non-Government Organisation (NGO) that is committed to road safety through involving the voices of young people is due to celebrate its second-year anniversary. As has been the tradition, a sensitization campaign is part of the weekend-long activities attached to the celebration. For this year’s... Read More
The two year-long Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) Project had its final activity covered yesterday at Hotel Africana. The project, whose focus was on strengthening helmet use and its regulations, as well as drink driving regulations saw us meet with different stakeholders involved in the road safety fraternity. Among the... Read More
The 18th of October 2022 has seen the Road Safety Coalition Uganda (ROSACU) through one of its Civil Society Organisations (CSO)- Safe Way Right Way (SWRW) officially launch a report on “The distribution of Safe Helmets in the market.” SWRW had initially commissioned a market analysis aimed at understanding the... Read More
The Ministry of Works and Transport has on Friday 14th October 2022 launched the National Road Safety Action Plan 2022-26 at Mestil Hotel Kampala. The plan follows the adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution proclaiming 2021-30 as the second decade of action for road safety. It is important to... Read More
The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) project about helmet use and drink driving regulations which started in 2021 is almost coming to an end. On the 29th of September 2022, we engaged stakeholders from the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Works and Transport, Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), Uganda Police... Read More