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| Founded | 2005 |
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| Type | Nonprofit |
| Focus | Road safety, child injury prevention, traffic safety research |
Area served | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Website | www.amend.org |
Amend is a nonprofit organization that works to reduce road traffic injury and death across sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among high-risk groups such as child pedestrians and motorcyclists. It delivers road infrastructure improvements, education programs, advocacy, and peer-reviewed research. Amend is registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the United States and an association loi 1901 in France.
Offices and regional operations
[edit]Amend runs programs across sub-Saharan Africa from its offices in the United States (administrative headquarters), France, Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
SARSAI
[edit]Amend's School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) program improves pedestrian infrastructure around high-risk schools. SARSAI is featured by the World Health Organization as a model program in its Global Status Report on Road Safety (Box 13, p. 51).[1] A 2018 peer-reviewed study found SARSAI reduced injury risk significantly for schoolchildren in urban Tanzania.[2] The program is cited as a best practice by the International Transport Forum[3] and featured in the Global Designing Cities Initiative’s manual How to Evaluate Street Transformations Near Schools.
Scientific research
[edit]Amend conducts epidemiological and intervention-based research on road traffic injuries in African countries. Its studies have been published in journals including Injury Prevention and Accident Analysis & Prevention.[4][5]
Advocacy reports
[edit]Amend regularly publishes policy reports in partnership with international organizations. Notable publications include:
- Wheels of Change: Safe and Sustainable Motorcycles in Sub-Saharan Africa (2024), produced with the FIA Foundation and the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).
- Step Change, a report on safe walking and child pedestrian safety.
Safe Schools Africa
[edit]Amend co-leads the Safe Schools Africa initiative with the FIA Foundation and Agence Française de Développement (AFD). The program works to scale up safe infrastructure for children across the continent, particularly on roads financed by development banks.[6] In 2024, the program received the International Road Federation (IRF) Excellence in Roads – Africa Award, presented by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana.[7]
Kids’ Court
[edit]Amend's Kids’ Court program—where children "prosecute" traffic violators outside schools—has been profiled as a model intervention by CityChangers.org.[8]
Recognition and media coverage
[edit]Amend is a member of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and has received:
- the WRI Ross Prize for Cities, for its SARSAI program[9]
- the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award[10]
- the IRF Excellence in Roads – Africa Award (2024)
Amend has been featured in:
- The Economist in "Cheap Asian motorcycles are transforming African cities" (2024)[11]
- Radio France Internationale (in French) for its participation in a WHO international road safety conference in Marrakech.[12]
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015. World Health Organization. 2015. hdl:10665/189242. ISBN 978-92-4-156506-6.
- ^ Poswayo, Ayikai; Kalolo, Simon; Rabonovitz, Katheryn; Witte, Jeffrey; Guerrero, Alejandro (2018). "School Area Road Safety Assessment and Improvements (SARSAI) programme reduces road traffic injuries among children in Tanzania". Injury Prevention. 25 (5): 414–420. doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2018-042786. PMID 29778992.
- ^ "Safe System Case Study: SARSAI – School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements" (PDF). International Transport Forum. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
- ^ Guerrero, Alejandro; Kumah, Kafui; Witte, Jeffrey (2023). "Road traffic injury incidence in urban Ghana: new data for safety planning". Injury Prevention.
- ^ "Child pedestrian safety and traffic exposure in Dar es Salaam". Accident Analysis & Prevention. 2022.
- ^ "Safe Roads, Bright Futures: Highlights from the Safe Schools Africa Regional Forum". Amend. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
- ^ "Global award for Amend and FIA Foundation Safe Schools Africa programme presented by Ghana president". FIA Foundation. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
- ^ "Kids' Court: Children Protecting Children". CityChangers.org. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
- ^ "Project SARSAI – Prize for Cities". WRI. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
- ^ "Prince Michael International Premier Award". RoadSafe. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
- ^ "Cheap Asian motorcycles are transforming African cities". The Economist. 2024-08-15.
- ^ "Maroc: une réunion internationale de l'OMS sur la sécurité routière à Marrakech". Radio France Internationale (in French). 2025-02-18. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
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