Support National Road Safety Policy

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Road safety has been declared a State policy in Colombia. Thepresent government¿s National Development Plan includes road safety asone of its principal strategies, and the Congress of the Republic has established it asa priority in its work program. In this context, development of an institutionalframework for road safety management is one of the priority actions of the NationalRoad Safety Plan.The purpose of this operation is toconsolidate the institutional strengthening process and further contribute to theexecution of the priority actions on Colombia¿s road safety management agenda.The main objective of the program is to support the Colombiangovernment in the consolidation of the national road safety policy, the ultimate goalof which will be to reduce the number of fatalities and injuries caused by trafficaccidents, through: (i) institutional strengthening for the implementation anddissemination of the PNSV; (ii) consolidation of the National Road SafetyObservatory; and (iii) support for the formulation of local and regional road safetyplans.