Speed Management and Safe Crossing on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway (N2) in Bangladesh

Project <strong>Management</strong>
The project is a joint effort of CIPRB <strong>and</strong> <strong>Safe</strong> <strong>Crossing</strong>s with the continuous support from
Ministry of Road Transport <strong>and</strong> Bridges <strong>and</strong> NGO affairs bureau. Experts from Bangladesh
<strong>and</strong> the Netherl<strong>and</strong>s played key role with all sorts of technical expertise. Project officials
from different professional sector were recruited prior to starting the activities. After getting
necessary permission from Government of Bangladesh, the project was initiated in field with
crash recording <strong>and</strong> baseline survey. Through rigorous field visit by experts <strong>and</strong> project team
on site, the intervention plan was developed <strong>and</strong> implemented in field. Following figure 2.1
illustrates the total project management in brief.
2.1. MoU bet ween <strong>Safe</strong> <strong>Crossing</strong>s <strong>and</strong> CIPRB
International
Experts
Technical
Advisory Group
Figure 2.1 : Total project management
An MoU between CIPRB <strong>and</strong>
<strong>Safe</strong> <strong>Crossing</strong>s was signed on
02 June 2014 in CIPRB Office.
The objective of this MoU was
to formalize a non-exclusive
framework of cooperation <strong>and</strong> to
facilitate collaboration between
<strong>Safe</strong> <strong>Crossing</strong>s <strong>and</strong> CIPRB to
promote the road safety program
that would save lives <strong>and</strong> generate
wider community benefits, both in
the area of health <strong>and</strong> in the area
of economic development. The
initial focus of the program is on
the N2 highway between Dhaka
<strong>and</strong> Sylhet. The program may subsequently be implemented on other Highways of Bangladesh if
both parties agree to do so.
For this pilot project, <strong>Safe</strong> <strong>Crossing</strong>s provided all necessary funds along with technical expertise
while CIPRB arranged all the activities to implement the program. The activities included
tendering, contractor selection, providing assistance in construction supervision, quality control
<strong>and</strong> quality acceptance of materials <strong>and</strong> management works for highway intervention program
<strong>and</strong> arranging training <strong>and</strong> education program, ACE in short for creating safe road user.
2.2 Project team
The team was guided by independent advisory board including nationally <strong>and</strong> internationally
renowned road safety experts <strong>and</strong> researchers. Both CIPRB <strong>and</strong> <strong>Safe</strong> <strong>Crossing</strong>s team acted
as partner during planning <strong>and</strong> implementation of the activity. Team members are as follows.
2.2.1 Advisory board
The following Experts are voluntarily helping the project through providing all sorts of
technical support.
<strong>Safe</strong>
<strong>Crossing</strong>s
Implementation
partner
CIPRB
Roads <strong>and</strong>
Highways
Department (RHD)
Research
Support Team
International
Experts
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