Another mission within the Twinning Project in Azerbaijan

The second mission of the EU-funded twinning project ‘Improving Road Safety in Azerbaijan’, Action 2.3.1 ‘ took place from 27 to 30 March this year.

The project “Increasing road safety in Azerbaijan”, funded by the European Union (EU), is expected to strengthen the competences of the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan and other relevant stakeholders in applying good security system management practices in compliance with EU standards and best practices. This know-how will be transferred through 38 missions by 57 Experts from Poland and Lithuania.

The project focuses on providing Azerbaijani, Polish and Lithuanian administrations with support in developing a road safety management system based on the 4 EU safety pillars: safe roads, safe vehicles, safe infrastructure and post-accident response in 5 areas of intervention: legislation, implementation, education, technology and international regulatory support.

It was conducted in a remote format and was attended by experts from Poland and Lithuania, including the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijan State Motor Roads Agency, as well as representatives of our project leader institution.
The activity under which the mission was conducted is entitled: “Revision of the current processes of planning, monitoring, evaluation and assessment of road safety interventions and development of a proposal for planning and follow-up methodology”.
The primary objective of the mission was to establish an effective road safety management system in Azerbaijan by improving coordination and cooperation between all relevant partners responsible for road safety.

The active participation of the representatives of the above-mentioned institutions in the exchange of information on the division of responsibilities for ensuring road safety and the knowledge and experience they shared during this mission shed light on the current situation in Azerbaijan and will undoubtedly help the experts to prepare and propose better methods of coordination and cooperation between Azerbaijani institutions in the future.

The discussions were successfully concluded and the cooperation between the experts and representatives of Azerbaijan and Poland and Lithuania is commendable! Conducting projects in such company is a pleasure!

Twinning “Increasing road safety in Azerbaijan”, funded by the European Union. Project duration 24 months. Project launching event was organized in cooperation with the Beneficiary Country, Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of Azerbaijan.