The Ibero-American Road Safety Program – OISEVI is a program attached to Ibero-American cooperation, within the framework of the Ibero-American General Secretariat.

The Ibero-American Program is the meeting place for those responsible for road safety in the countries of the Ibero-American region, where data management, the promotion of policies and the exchange of good practices are discussed to achieve the reduction of accidents and their consequences.

Its mission is to positively impact public road safety policies and to influence and technically advise the main actors responsible for traffic and road safety in the member countries, in order to achieve a substantial reduction in accidents, as well as their consequences.

And its vision is to be recognized as the main promoter of public policies and good practices in road safety and as a natural and official reference in the generation and provision of qualitative and quantitative information on traffic and road safety.

Some of its objectives are:

To provide technical assistance to countries in the collection, management and analysis of road safety data, according to international standards.

To monitor the progress of countries and the region, carrying out critical monitoring of the advances in road safety in each member country.

To encourage the approval of national and regional road safety policies in member countries aimed at ensuring the protection of life and the rights of members of society.

To contribute to the creation of spaces for dialogue and discussion in favor of the formation of technical capacities in road safety and the application of public policies in the same sense.

To share publications and information with progress indicators in road safety in the Ibero-American region.

To promote good practices in national and regional road safety policies and strategies.

The Program integrates the Ibero-American Road Safety Observatory (OISEVI), one of the main regional road safety observatories in the world.

The Ibero-American Road Safety Observatory (OISEVI) is an organization that was created on the initiative of the region's traffic and road safety authorities, in their desire to address the problems caused by traffic accidents.

The OISEVI was created as a result of the Ibero-American Traffic and Road Safety Meetings convened since 2002 by the DGT and with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation. In this regard, in July 2008, at the VII Meeting of Traffic and Road Safety Officials in Quito, the authorities highlighted their interest and the need to converge in an Ibero-American road safety space to adequately address the challenges that the problem was causing in the countries of the region.

The XVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government (SEGIB) held in October 2008 in San Salvador, recognized the importance of the conclusions of the Quito meeting and urged the highest authorities on traffic and road safety in the countries of the region to take the initiative and develop actions aimed at reducing accidents, launching an Ibero-American observatory to support public policies on road safety with the respective follow-up to obtain results.

The regional situation of road safety, the need for a regional organization and a database of accidents that included all the countries of the region were addressed in each meeting and in each one the necessary steps were taken to achieve the objective:

• Road Safety Meeting for Ibero-America and the Caribbean (EISEVI), Madrid. February 2009.
• VIII Meeting of Traffic and Road Safety Officials, Santiago de Chile. June 2009.
• 2nd Meeting on Road Safety of the Mercosur Parliament, Porto Belo. July 2009.
• 19th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, Estoril. November 2009.
• Federation of Associations of Victims of Traffic Accidents and NGOs Against Road Violence in Ibero-America, Medellín. February 2010.
• 9th Meeting of Traffic and Road Safety Officials, Montevideo. May 2010.
• 10th Meeting of Traffic and Road Safety Officials, Mexico City. May 2011.

The first Steering Committee of OISEVI was formed in Paris, France, in 2011, with an agreement signed between Argentina, Spain and Mexico. At the same site, these countries signed an agreement with the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to promote the organization and create the IRTAD LAC database. At the international level, the United Nations Organization launched the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.

Within this framework, the 1st General Assembly of OISEVI was held in 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 2013, OISEVI was recognized by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, in a report entitled "Improving road safety in the world" in which he highlighted the activities carried out to deal with traffic deaths and underlined the intention to standardize the data collection processes and their quality.

OISEVI has been monitoring the national road safety policies of member countries, carrying out, among others, the following activities:

Creating spaces for the analysis of public policies on road safety at the highest decision-making level (government authorities and actors responsible for traffic and road safety).

Promoting the formulation of public policies on road safety and the creation of National Agencies and Observatories in this area.

Standardizing, collecting, processing and analyzing road safety data, contributing to the generation of progress monitoring reports on statistical indicators on road safety.

Promoting the participation of various technical or financial cooperation organizations working in the field of road safety.

The Ibero-American Road Safety Programme is made up of the Intergovernmental Council, the Executive Committee, the Technical Unit, the Advisory Commission and the Permanent Commission of Data Coordinators.

Intergovernmental Council

The Intergovernmental Council is the highest authority of the Programme, and is responsible for defining its objectives, results and activities, as well as deciding on its operation and organisation.

The Intergovernmental Council of the Programme is made up of the highest national officials in matters of road safety in the member countries who have been designated by the competent national authority. These persons are called REPPI: Representatives of the countries in the Programmes and Initiatives.

The REPPI must contribute and actively participate in the management of the Programme and in the development of the activities, committing the financial, technical, human and material resources necessary for its proper functioning.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is primarily responsible for monitoring the execution of the Annual Operating Plans, reporting to the Intergovernmental Council on a regular basis.

The Executive Committee will be made up of the President of the Intergovernmental Council and four (4) members of the Intergovernmental Council.

Technical Unit

The Technical Unit is responsible for the execution of the operating plans approved by the Intergovernmental Council and for ensuring the smooth running of the Program.

The Technical Unit will be headed by a Technical Secretary.

Permanent Commission of Data Coordinators

This is the meeting of the national road safety data officers of each country. The Coordinators systematize the information reporting in each of the countries. They provide the national data and indicators for the Ibero-American Road Safety Report.