If you want to design your own project proposal based on road safety. Take a look at this project it will surely help you. This sample proposal is designed to address the impacts of road traffic injuries among children, create road safety awareness in schools through School Road Safety Club activities such as debates, poems, TV, and radio talk shows, play/skits among others. The project will promote road safety knowledge among school-going children and youth, ensure cultural and behavioral change, inculcate safe usage of road and reduce road traffic injuries to the vulnerable road users, and promote healthy discussions among youth through debate. The project is very important as it will create awareness and appreciate action as major risk mitigation in road safety among the school going children and youth under 30 years of age, aggressively and constantly cause change behavior toward the use of the road by the drivers and road users, enhance and promote road safety campaign and associated activities.
Project Summary
The project site is going to be within xxxx district, starting with 25 schools initially in all the five divisions but will eventually extend throughout the country gradually. Uganda has more than 20,000 government aided and private own primary and secondary schools. The project was identified to be the most effective way to advocate for road safety among the school children and the community around who are the most vulnerable road users. The School Road Safety Club (SRSC) offers a long and sustainable way of communicating repeated message to young children from pre -school to adulthood and beyond. Children travel to and from school by walking or cycling, by school bus or in private vehicle. This project is aimed at helping children understand fundamentals of road safety through establishment SRSC, simulating complex road situations where children shall recreate their school’s surrounding area. Furthermore, the children shall understand the Highway Code and learn the best behaviors for use of the road. This shall be done through different activities such as debates, quizzes, poems, camps, distribution of high way code, TVs and radio talk show, marking of Zebra crossing in front of schools, communality sensitization and public awareness.
Uganda’s current population is estimated at 44 million. 77% of the population is under 30 years of age. This means the majority of the population is young and vulnerable road users. Furthermore, road traffic death injury is one of the highest in East Africa. On average, Uganda loses 10 people per day in road traffic crashes and spends approximately UGX ***** trillion ($ ***** billion) annually on road crashes, representing 5% of Uganda’s gross domestic product (GDP) (UN Report 2016).
Within this challenging context, road safety culture and attitude among the people is declining to the detriment of the safety of road users. This is largely due to weak leadership for road safety, declining priority of allocation of resources and diminishing capacity for road safety intervention, mainly driven by low communication to road safety matters, reduced interest of developing partners in road safety, non- participation of crucial stakeholders in road safety, private sector, and civil society reduced interest and lack of community involvements. The main objective of the project is to address the impacts of road traffic injuries among children, create road safety awareness in schools through School Road Safety Club (SRSC) activities such as debate, poems, TV and radio talk shows, play/skits among others. The project will promote road safety knowledge among school going children and youth, ensure cultural and behavioral change, inculcate safe usage of road and reduce road traffic injuries to the vulnerable road users, and promote health discussions among youth through debate. The project will start with 10 schools initially, in xxxx district and by end of first year of the project 50% of the schools within xxxx District would have been covered. Additional 5% and 20% of schools in xxxx and upcountry school will be covered in the second and third year of the project respectively. The total budget of the project is $****** and 10% ($ ******) of the budget will be contributed by ABC. ABC therefore requests a grant of $ ****** from people who have passion for road safety and organizations of good will. Road safety concerns all of us and requires concerted effort. With this project, road safety crashes among children and community will be reduced by 50% and children, teaches, school guides, parents will be fully aware and sensitized directly and indirectly considering the benefits that it would create such as improvement on knowledge base sharing of information on road safety; and an area or venue for different programs and activities from the different government agencies and non-government organizations.
Project Description
Problem Statement
Road safety situation in Uganda has deteriorated rapidly over the last years, mainly due to a number of reasons, which include growing vehicle population, the lack of appropriate road safety interventions, weak enforcement law among others. The number of road crash fatalities in Uganda rose from 2,597 to 3,503 in 2016 representing a growth of 25.9%. The accident severity index is 24 people killed per 100 road crashes. On average, Uganda loses 10 people per day in road traffic crashes (United Nation Development Report 2018). The overall annual cost of road crashes is currently estimated at approximately UGX 4.4 trillion ($******), representing 5% of Uganda’s gross domestic product (GDP) (United Nation Development Report 2018). The main casualties are the pedestrians 39%, followed by passengers 28%, 2-wheel occupant’s boda – boda/cyclists 28% and motor vehicles 5% respectively (Annual Traffic Report 2018). Unless some action is taken, road traffic deaths are going to become more severe.
Rationale
The project is very important as it will create awareness and appreciate action as major risk mitigation in road safety among the school going children and youth under 30 years of age, aggressively and constantly cause change behavior toward use of road by the drivers and road users, enhance and promote road safety campaign and associated activities. It helps in taking action to build safety and resilience, and reduce future hazard impacts. The project will ensure that there is continuous flow of road safety activities in all schools. The project will further improve issues of lack of community sensitization as the children will be the road safety ambassadors to their parents and community they live in. With the implementation of the project, government will save the money being used on road safety injuries for other equally important development issues such as improving of social services and providing quality services to schools and hospitals. ABC is best suited organization to implement this project, we have capacity and have done similar activity, as well as working with other NGOs in road safety.
Project Goal and Objectives
The main goal of the project is to work with the teachers and school administration to instill road safety discipline and knowledge, to school children and youth below 30 years of age by providing support to teachers who interact with these children on daily basis. Provide opportunity to reach out to thousands of school children and youth with positive message about safe use of roads. Children are the future leaders and change agent. The specific objectives of the project include:
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- To provide healthy discussions and talks among the young people on issue of road safety.
- To help in setting up a culture and behavior of road usage through these young generation.
- To instill road safety discipline and knowledge to school children that will transform community at large
- To reduce road traffic injuries among the school children.
- To create a healthy road safety environment to children and surrounding community.
Training modules
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- Road Safety Education for School Children
- Primary going pupils will be categorized into 3 broad age groups; Early Childhood (age 4-6yrs), Lower Primary (Age 7-11yrs), and Upper Primary (Roughly Age 12-15yrs).
- Secondary student are to be categorized as adolescents/teens (15-18yrs)
- Road Safety Education for School Children
Project Outcomes/Results
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- The primary outcome is that the school children and youth and communities will have gain knowledge on road safety which will help to save lives and properties.
- Better and safe generation will promote sanity on the usage of road and other facilities which will reduce increasing number of road traffic crashes among the vulnerable road users.
- Create an open venue for free discussion on topics of road safety which will facilitate change of culture and behavior on usage of roads and facilities.
- The project success will be measured with the following indicators: number of clubs initiated, number of teaches and guides trained, number of school visited, activities planned and executed.
Project outputs
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- School clubs initiated
- Teaches and guides trained
- 50% of schools clubs initiated and operational by end of year three
- At least 50 zebra crossing marked
- Community sensitized and awareness created
- 50% of road accident injuries reduced among the vulnerable road users
Target Beneficiaries
The project will be implemented in all schools but done in phases. The direct or primary beneficiaries are school children from Pre School to high schools and beyond and secondary beneficiaries are the teachers, surrounding community members and parents. It is expected that over 20,000 schools will benefit directly. The indirect beneficiaries are people within communities and public at large.
Risk and Assumptions
The project will be a failure if the schools do not buy in the idea. However, ABC has already started mobilizing schools and engaging key stakeholders like Ministry of Education and Sports, Local Government, Ministry of Works & Transport, Uganda Police to partner with.
We assume that the schools and surrounding communities know their problem and that initiative comes from within the school and community. This will contribute to the success of the project.
Project Sustainability
The project will be managed by teachers who will be given some facilitation with support from ABC. To ensure sustainability of the project, there will be quarterly competitions among the schools; on selected topics on road safety and best performing schools shall be given trophies and certificates for all schools. There will be continuous debate, poems presentation, TV and radio talk shows, and camps among other activities to create awareness to the children and communities around and annual xxxxx Convention.
Consideration of Crosscutting Issues
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- This project will assist in instilling discipline in school children, youth and public at large through children and youth who are change agent in our society. This will help in preventing the youth from road traffic injuries.
- This project will carter for all school children, including those with disability so that the right to access is granted to every child and individual.
- These young children we’re training today are the future drivers, vehicle owners, administrators/ leaders in the future.
Monitoring and Evaluation
The project will be monitored by ABC on quarterly basis. Implementation will be done by schools. The ABC will monitor every activity of project throughout the project life.
