Innovation Supported by the Cotswold Foundation

The Cotswold Foundation has supported Amend in Tanzania with small annual grants each year since 2017. 

These grants have allowed us to trial small and interesting projects and studies, some of which have gone on to become established areas of our program work. Examples include:

• A study to understand the impact of “community feel” road signs at increasing driver stopping rates at zebra crossings in the areas around primary schools
• A study of road safety issues faced by secondary school students in Tanzania
• The first pilot of our Kids’ Court program in Tanzania, building on lessons learned in Mozambique, bringing together the police, drivers, schools and children. Kids’ Court is now one of our core road safety activities
• An innovative evaluation of our Kids’ Court program, using data on traffic fines and repeat offending
• A pilot of the Kids’ Road Safety Panel, which builds on Kids’ Court, but rather than engaging children with drivers, it engages children with engineers and government officials in an attempt to improve the way that roads are built