May and June were the months of donor reports, proposals and partnerships for the RS program in Cambodia, which alerted another busy period for July-December. 2007-2009 program report was completed and submitted to the European Union with the support from the Brussels team. At the same time, 3 proposals were submitted to GRSP for the police study tour in Vietnam and Australia, road safety capacity building workshops (as part of RS 10 - Bloomberg fund) and the organization of the GRSP Asian Seminar. A total of around USD 90,000 for these 3 proposals was approved. Other 2 proposals (with a total of USD 100,000) are in the process of finalizing and submitting to Olympus KeyMed and a Japanese Consultant Company. Besides, two new partnerships have been initiated between HIB and international partners: IRTAD and the Johns Hopkins University. The partnerships mainly contribute to the capacity building of the RS-HIB team on monitoring, evaluation and research methodology. These are aligned with our future approach towards emphasizing our technical advisory role and reducing the implementing role in the RS field in Cambodia.

• RCVIS

Significant steps were accomplished as part of the RCVIS handover. The system has been transferred fully to our counterparts: the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Interior. Databases have been finalized and followed by capacity building trainings to appropriated staff in both ministries. Since the beginning of June, the management of the data collection system and databases have been fully under both ministries with appointed staff. At the same time, to ensure the quality of the systems, HIB has attached our staff to the ministry teams to provide regular technical support and monitor the implementation. Yet, data analysis skills will be considered as another critical step to be provided to those government staff.

• Support to government:

Support to Government has accomplished three significant achievements during these 2 months. Firstly, a historical milestone was observed as Cambodia can set their national targets and indicators for the 2011-2020 National Road Safety Action Plan. With the technical support from an expert from the Netherlands, a full week workshop was organized for the Action Plan working group to set the indicators and targets with evidence based and advanced analysis on the evolution of the road crashes during the past 15 years.

Secondly, trainings on Road Crash and Injury Prevention were organized to 40 staff in the Provincial Road Safety Committee (PRSC) secretariats in 6 provinces. The trainings were very well appreciated by the staff as they can improve their knowledge and skills to implement road safety intervention for their provinces.

Lastly, with the financial support from the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), a study tour for high-profile government officials, from the Ministry of Interior and the National Road Safety Commitee, was organized in Vietnam and Australia. The study tour provided opportunity to the officials to observe and learn from the experiences in enforcing helmet wearing, drink-driving, and overloading laws in these two countries.

• RSE:

Road Safety Programme, in collaboration with MoEYS, had conducted, in June 2010, a monitoring in some schools located along national roads in 5 selected provinces. The objective was to evaluate the strategy and effectiveness of road safety curriculum implementation. Result shows that teachers and students appreciated the curriculum, but the way of teaching differs from one to another school. Practically, it was taught at the end of Khmer Literature, in Art or Agriculture session because there was no specific time devoted to road safety yet. Moreover, the evaluation team also found that there was lack of collaboration among key stakeholders such as schools, polices, provincial department of public works, and transport. However, teachers claimed that the knowledge and understanding of students on road safety was improved even the curriculum was not fully implemented. In addition, the behavioral change of students toward wearing helmet and driving was quite low due to rare enforcement by the police.