Welcome to the Regional Centre of Excellence for Road Safety (RCoERS) platform where you will be able to know various activities of the Centre. The RCoERS was established in 2020 to advocate and promote road safety awareness in all five pillars of road safety namely Road Safety Management; Safer Roads and Mobility; Safer Road Users; Safer Vehicles and Post-Crash Response through research, training, and consultancy services in Tanzania and other Regions of Africa. The establishment of the centre was financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of the United Republic Tanzania as an effort to respond to UN Sustainable Development goals target 3.6 and Second Decade of Action (2021-2030) to reduce road deaths and injuries by 50% in the end of 2030.

Road safety is recently considered a public healthy concern due to the social and economic impacts experienced like increased dependency and poverty in many countries especially the developing countries. Road accident is ranked leading cause of death for children and young adults 5–29-year-old with two-third (2/3) of fatalities occurring to working age of 18-59 years. Collaborative effort has been called upon globally to address the road accident tragedy to save the current and future generation. 

The RCoERS main role is to coordinate collaborative efforts of all key stakeholders to improve road safety issues in Tanzania and other Regions of Africa. The RCoERS believes that, collaborative efforts of all key stakeholders of Road Safety from individual levels, transporters, community, NGOs, governments, Financial Institutions, Religious Institutions, Business companies, political parties, Activists, Academia, Media and other stakeholders will make significant positive change of attitudes and road safety status in their countries and the world.

The specific objectives of RCoERS include:

• Conducting training of trainers for road safety professionals
• Conducting road safety training programs
• Facilitating research and consultancy services on road safety
• Promoting road safety awareness and establish links that can support centre activities