The Nada Foundation kicks off the Egyptian Week of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.


The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) is commemorated on the third Sunday of November each year. This year marks the start of the new Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, during which World Day will play a very important part – highlighting the very reasons for all the necessary actions during this coming Decade. This Global Plan has been developed by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Regional Commissions, in cooperation with partners in the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and other stakeholders, as a guiding document to support the implementation of the Decade of Action 2021–2030 and its objectives. The UN General Assembly Resolution 74/299 declared a Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, with the target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by at least 50% during that period. As the first Decade of Action comes to a close without achieving the target on the global level, the Second Decade of Action begins it is a critical moment to set aside commitment to reflect on the past learning lessons and a guiding plan for the future.

The Remembrance Day for Road Traffic Victims is an opportunity to promote the sharing of knowledge and a greater commitment to road safety. remember all people killed and seriously injured on the roads; acknowledge the crucial work of the emergency services; draw attention to the generally trivial legal response to culpable road deaths and injuries advocate for better support for road traffic victims and victim families; promote evidence-based actions to prevent and eventually stop further road traffic deaths and injuries. In addition to the human suffering caused by road traffic injuries, they also incur a heavy economic burden on victims and their families, both through treatment costs for the injured and through loss of productivity of those killed or disabled. More broadly, road traffic injuries have a serious impact on national economies, costing countries 3% of their annual gross domestic product. For this reason, SDG target 3.6 called for the halving of the number of road traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2020.Ensuring the safety of transport systems is also directly linked to SDG targets on sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) and climate action (SDG 13).

Last year, The Nada Foundation for Safer Egyptian Roads celebrated the 6th anniversary of the international observance at the local level of this Day dedicated to remembering the many millions of road traffic victims throughout Egypt and the whole world. The Nada Foundation celebrates this commemoration each year as a civil society groups that can help fill important gaps in different (sometimes neglected) areas of road safety, as well as to help government and other actors understand (through epidemiological and risk analyses) the nature of the problem as well as to identify effective solutions and strategies (through intervention trials and implementation studies).