GRSF has released its annual report for fiscal year 2025 (“FY25”), highlighting a year of renewed global momentum, international recognition, and continued progress in its mission to support low- and middle-income countries in reducing road traffic fatalities and serious injuries.

In FY25—which covers the period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025—the World Bank approved significant new funding for road and urban transport projects. Of this total, $945 million (13 percent) was allocated specifically to road safety, informed and catalyzed by GRSF’s technical leadership. This marks the highest level of road safety financing ever influenced by GRSF, and reflects the Facility’s growing role in ensuring that safety is systematically integrated into World Bank transport operations.

During FY25, GRSF achieved the following results:

The Facility launched the Road Crash Cost Analysis Tool, which helps countries assess the economic burden of road traffic crashes and estimate the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL), as well as  the Road Safety Calculator, a first-of-its-kind tool that helps countries estimate the lives that could be saved through targeted interventions and supports decision-makers in prioritizing the most effective investments. GRSF also released several major publications supporting institutional reform, motorcycle safety, vehicle standards, and Safe System implementation.

This was a year of recognition as well. In December 2024, GRSF received the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for “A Decade of Saving Lives Through Catalyzing Road Safety Investments,” acknowledging its sustained leadership in mobilizing and influencing road safety financing across the World Bank Group and other partners.

GRSF’s leadership was also visible on the global stage. At the 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, held in Marrakech in February 2025, the Facility played a key role in shaping discussions on road safety financing, institutional strengthening, and the exchange of evidence-based practices among development partners and national road safety agencies.