Road safety issues addressed by Africa Road Safety Plan: Are still relevant?

In 2011 the Africa Road Safety Action Plan (ARSAP) established an Action Plan to meet the objective of reducing road traffic crashes by 50% by the year 2020. Despite this effort, the situation worsens year after year and Africa is the continent with the worst road safety performance. To contribute reverse this trend, the SaferAfrica project, a joint effort of 17 partners from Africa and Europe, was launched in 2016. Within the framework of SaferAfrica project, the Crowdsourcing tool was developed and implemented through the African Road Safety Observatory. The Crowdsourcing tool aims to collect opinions and road safety needs of an African country from African citizens; report general road safety issues at country level; and propose ideas to improve road safety in the country of origin. In total, 73 reports were received from 29 countries covering the five African regions. However, Crowdsourcing participants frequently reported more road safety problems in a single report, so a total of 180 feedbacks were received. Thus, the objective of this paper is to perform a comparative analysis between the road safety reports from the Crowdsourcing tool and the ARSAP expected accomplishment and activities, and determine if the road safety problems addressed by ARSAP are still relevant, based on the actions promoted by each of the five pillars and their implementation status in accordance with the mid-term review.