SAFE ROADS IN SURKHET

BY HEMANT TIWARI FROM NEPAL

Road Safety Audit (RSA) is usually only common on the central government level and is often ignored at a provincial and local level in Nepal. The Western part of the country is often forgotten in terms of road infrastructure despite having a high rate of fatal crashes.

Surkhet, the capital city of Karnali Province, is witnessing an increase in road crashes. The main aim of this project is to advocate for safer road infrastructure in all kinds of roads and make Road Safety Audit (RSA) mandatory. The project will focus on capacity building on safer road infrastructure along with RSA among technical, bureaucratic, and political leaders at central, provincial, and local government.

Apart from the capacity building; an RSA of more than 30 kilometers in the area will be conducted and an RSA report will be prepared based on which area the team will implement the project and where different stakeholders will be advised to invest in road safety infrastructure.

ABOUT THE PROJECT LEAD

By profession, Hemant is a transport engineer who has been working in transport planning, traffic engineering, and road safety since 2011. He leads a youth-led NGO named Safe & Sustainable Travel Nepal (SSTN) which focuses on sustainable and safe transportation system through research, awareness, capacity building, and advocacy.

He is engaged as Visiting Faculty Member in an academic institution affiliated with Civil Engineering dealing with transportation engineering and road safety. He is also part of the core members of the team working on the National Road Safety Action Plan 2021-2030 for Nepal.

PROJECT UPDATES

Youth Coalition member leads road audit project in Nepal

To kick off his Local Actions project, Hemant Tiwari and his team led an interactive workshop about the roads in Surkhet, Nepal for engineering students.

The workshop covered topics around the Project “Safe Roads in Surkhet, Nepal” which looks to improve the road infrastructure in the city through road safety audits. They trained young engineering students and met with stakeholders in efforts to implement 30 km/h speeds in the city.

organization behind the action

safe and sustainable travel nepal (sstn)

Safe & Sustainable Travel Nepal (SSTN) - Youth and Transport Engineer led NGO working in the field of the safe and sustainable transportation system in Nepal through Research, Awareness, Capacity Building & advocacy since 2017.