Reimbursable Advisory Services on Road Safety Technical Support for the Philippines : Activity 1- Assessment of DPWH’s Capacity in Managing Road Infrastructure Safety

With Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the World Bank worked on road safety in 2011 on the national roads improvement and management program phase 2 (NRIMP2). Under NRIMP2, the World Bank supported DPWH in conducting International Road Assessment Program (iRAP) surveys for 6,000 km of national roads, trainings and capacity building, and updating selected manuals. In this reimbursable advisory service (RAS), the priority of DPWH is to improve its capacity in relation to road safety activities. DPWH specifically asked for a review of their institution’s capacity and technical support on using road infrastructure safety management tools, such as iRAP and road safety audit (RSA), including accreditation.

This report is part of the RAS) - road safety technical support for the Philippines, which was commissioned by DPWH. It aims to improve DPWH’s capacity in managing road infrastructure safety in accordance with international best practices. This report comprises a review of DPWH’s road safety institutional capacity, including extensive information gathering and consultation with representatives of central and local governments, civil society, and other relevant stakeholders. This also involves a complete, multisectoral and strategic road safety management capacity review, incorporating international good practice, complying with the World Banks’s Road Safety Management Capacity Reviews and Safe Systems Projects Guidelines, and aiming at analyzing how DPWH functions in context of the entire national road safety management of the Philippines.