The World Bank has for some decades collaborated closely in several fields with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). This collaboration has become an increasingly important feature of Bank-financed activities.

However, Bangladesh is the first country where the World Bank establish a collaboration with NGOs in the field of road safety. This is done as a part of the Bangladesh Second Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project (RRMP).

ROAD SAFETY NGOs IN EUROPE

In most of the European countries, the NGOs during the last decades have played an important role in improving the road safety situation. Nearly all the European countries have separate NGOs working only with road safety. These NGOs have developed to become a natural part of the road safety efforts in these countries. A clear majority of these NGOs are working with accident prevention, and are not involved in treatment and rehabilitation of the road accident victims. However, in many countries a close collaboration has been established with NGOs working for victims, assisting in treatment                                                                                        - road safety education in kindergarten, primary school, and secondary school

- road safety information including campaigns and media-service

- coordination between NGOs and different public sectors

About 60 countries are represented and the number of members is presently increasing rapidly. We also find Asian NGOs represented in PRI, which is divided up into several regional groups. An international traffic safety congress is held every second year, the next one will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 1998.