Cambodia Road Traffic Accident and Victim Information System Annual Report 2004

The objective of the Road Traffic Accident and Victim Information System (RTAVIS) is to provide government and development stakeholders in Cambodia with accurate, continuous and comprehensive information on road traffic accidents and victims.
It should allow them to better understand the current road safety situation, plan appropriate responses and
evaluate impact of current and future initiatives.
Three different ministries are involved in road traffic accident data collection in Cambodia:
- The Ministry of Public Works and Transport;
- The Ministry of Interior;
- The Ministry of Health.
Although the databases developed by these ministries have been providing relevant indications on the road
safety situation of the country, a need for improvement has been observed:
- The databases are not compatible between each other and there are important discrepancies between
them;
- They under-report the real situation;
- They are limited in their scope.

For those reasons, in early 2004, Handicap International Belgium (HIB), in collaboration with the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC), has proposed to the three ministries to assist them to develop a new system, based on a standardized and more detailed data collection form.

The new system has been progressively developed since the 1st of March 2004, in accordance with the
requirements of the ASEAN and the United Nations and in the framework of Action 2 (Road Accident Data
Systems) of the National Road Safety Action Plan of the Royal Government of Cambodia.
Today, RTAVIS collects, centralizes, analyses and disseminates information provided by three different
sources:
- Public hospitals;
- Private clinics;
- Traffic police.
By the end of 2004, information was being collected at 11 hospitals and private clinics in Phnom Penh and at
the Phnom Penh traffic police.
In 2005, the system will be progressively extended to cover the whole country, in collaboration with the
mentioned ministries and other partners such as the Belgian Technical Cooperation.
The present report analyses the information collected by RTAVIS for the year 2004. It is a synthesis of all the
monthly reports that were published throughout the year.

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RTAVIS 2004