In October 2025, the APRSO adopted its Strategy and Operational Action Plan 2026–2035, setting a clear direction of the Observatory’s priorities over the next decade and how it will measure success. 

Highlights of the Strategy include:

• An expanded focus beyond fatalities and injuries to include safety performance indicators - the practical signals that show whether systems are becoming safer. These include speed management, helmet and seatbelt use, safer road design, traffic volumes, and the exposure of pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists to risk. By strengthening how these indicators are collected, compared, and used, APRSO will help countries identify problems earlier and target investment where it can save the most lives.
• Prioritizes data quality, consistency, and comparability across countries, enabling governments to benchmark progress, learn from peers, and make a stronger case for sustained road safety investment. APRSO will continue to serve as a regional platform where evidence, policy dialogue, and financing conversations come together.
• The first three-year Action Plan (2026–2028) focuses on turning this direction into practice. Priorities include strengthening national data systems, expanding peer exchange, deepening links between diagnostics and investment decisions, and testing new tools and technologies that support implementation.
• Capacity building remains central, with a renewed emphasis on speed management as one of the most effective and affordable life-saving measures available to countries.
• Calls for closer collaboration with regional and global partners, including other road safety observatories, academia and centres of excellence, to maximize synergies, avoid duplication, and scale what works.
• Reinforces road safety as a core development issue, linked directly to health, equity, climate resilience, and sustainable transport and not a standalone concern. 

As APRSO enters the next decade, this Strategy positions the Observatory as a more action-oriented platform: one that helps countries translate evidence into decisions, decisions into investment, and investment into lives saved. Read the full strategy here.