active· Health

A ‘safe systems’ approach for enabling traffic injury prevention in Nepal (SAFETrIP Nepal)

The objectives of our four work packages are: Work Package 1: • To identify existing policies and programmes at local, provincial and national levels of government in Nepal that can be linked to evidence-based recommendations for safer road systems • To understand the current reach and implementation of these policies and programmes • To identify the barriers and enablers to further implementation of these policies and programmes • To develop a toolkit for those working at local and provincial government level to help them improve road safety Work Package 2: • To identify the factors that influence how bus transport is currently provided in Nepal, and how those factors affect bus safety • To establish how these factors affect the current provision of bus transport and which factors can best be used as levers towards safer buses and bus services • To identify which established, cost-effective, interventions are needed to shift current practice and policy • To generate agreement across sectors on recommendations to make bus travel safer Work Package 3: • To determine the health, social and economic impacts of being injured in a road traffic crash in Nepal. • To understand the facilitators and barriers to optimal handover of road traffic injured patients from prehospital carers to hospital emergency department staff • To establish stakeholder agreement on a best practice care pathway for road traffic injured patients to be used in hospital emergency departments Work Package 4: • To deliver five, seven-week online good data governance courses between 2023 and 2026 • To develop and make available training materials that enable the safe collection, use and storage of research data • To strengthen the capacity for peer-to-peer learning on good data governance within and between low and middle-income countries.