Zambia’s Road Safety Implementation Partner
Zambia Road Safety Trust works with government, companies, donors, councils, schools, transport operators and communities to reduce road deaths and injuries through practical road safety programmes.
Road deaths in Zambia rose from 2,199 in 2024 to 2,567 in 2025, an increase of 16.7% in a single year Road Accidents in 2025 Road Accidents in 2025 . At least 187 of the dead in the first nine months of 2025 were children under 16
Road Safety Needs Practical Delivery
ZRST turns road safety funding into finished work on the ground: marked crossings, supported 30 km/h school-zone implementation, trained riders, safer fleets, measured results. Since 2015 we have worked with government agencies, councils, corporates and international partners to deliver it.
Zambia has road safety policy, a lead agency and public concern. What it lacks is capacity to convert these into physical change at the places where people are dying: school gates, market corridors, high-speed urban roads. That is the gap ZRST fills.
Where We Focus
ZRST works across four priority areas where road safety risk is visible and practical action is possible.
Safe School Zones
Safer journeys for children going to and from school.
Motorcycle Safety
Safer riding, helmet use, visibility and delivery rider safety.
FleetSafe Zambia
Safer drivers, routes, vehicles and fleet systems.
Safer Streets and Corridors
Safer walking, cycling, public transport access and corridor movement.
We understand local road risk
ZRST works close to the roads, schools, operators, councils and communities where road safety problems are felt every day.
We connect policy with action
Road safety policy matters when it changes how people move, how roads are managed and how risk is reduced.
We build fundable programmes
Partners need clear activities, realistic budgets, defined roles and evidence of delivery. ZRST helps shape that structure.
We keep the focus on risk
Visibility is welcome, but the first test of a partnership is whether it can reduce real road danger.
Work With Us
The Zambia Road Safety Trust is a Zambian non-governmental organisation, registered in 2015 (RNGO 101/0503/2015), based at 10 Mulundu Street, Woodlands, Lusaka. Our Board of Trustees is chaired by Constance Luipa. Our accounts are externally audited by P Ponta and Associates.
ZRST is a consortium partner in two EU Horizon road safety research programmes, TRANS-SAFE and AfroSAFE, supporting Safe System research, policy learning and practical road safety work in Africa worth nearly €8 million combined, in consortia with Volvo, Autoliv, TU Delft and Lund University TRANS-SAFE and AfroSAFE , supporting Safe System research, policy learning and practical road safety work in Africa.
You can support a school safety project, commission fleet safety work, back motorcycle rider training, fund safer streets work or help build stronger evidence for road safety action in Zambia.
TRANS-SAFE (EU Horizon)
Independent results from 15 Lusaka school zones
The EU-funded TRANS-SAFE project reports the measured outcomes of the Safer Journeys to School work: vehicle speeds down over 30% in designated school zones, unsafe crossing behaviour down 20%, and all 15 zones achieving a minimum 3-star iRAP pedestrian rating.
Read on trans-safe.orgPublished June 2026
European Commission, CORDIS
ZRST is a beneficiary on an EU Horizon research programme
The official EU record for TRANS-SAFE (Grant Agreement 101069525), a €3.8 million Horizon Europe project transforming road safety in Africa, on which ZRST is a consortium beneficiary.
View the CORDIS recordProject period 2022 to 2026
UNDP Zambia
UNDP names ZRST as implementer of school safety works
UNDP Zambia’s press release on infrastructure improvements at Kabanana, Kalingalinga, Lusakasa and Jacaranda Combined schools, delivered by ZRST under the Creating Cities for Non-Motorised Transport Users project.
Read on undp.orgSeptember 2023
UN Road Safety Fund
ZRST on the UN Road Safety Fund platform
ZRST’s organisation record on the United Nations Road Safety Fund website, reflecting our role in UNRSF-financed school-zone work in Lusaka.
View on roadsafetyfund.un.orgiRAP, Star Rating for Schools
Safer steps to school in Lusaka
The global Star Rating for Schools programme documents the Lusaka school improvements, assessed with the SR4S methodology, and describes ZRST’s role in delivering them.
Read on starratingforschools.orgDecember 2023
iRAP, Star Rating for Schools
School upgrades and the national 30 km/h school-zone law
Independent coverage of ZRST school-zone upgrades supported by Vital Strategies, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Lusaka City Council, and ZRST’s advocacy role, with Amend and the FIA Foundation, in Zambia’s 2020 national 30 km/h school-zone speed law.
Read on starratingforschools.orgMay 2021
FIA Foundation
Child Health Initiative school-zone works in Kitwe
The FIA Foundation’s own report on speed-reduction infrastructure at Chimwemwe Secondary and Kamitondo Combined schools in Kitwe, naming ZRST as a delivery partner under the Child Health Initiative.
Read on fiafoundation.orgJune 2022
Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety
ZRST in the global road safety NGO community
The Global Alliance profile of ZRST’s founder, documenting the organisation’s history, media advocacy and appointment as National Data Coordinator for the WHO Global Report on Road Safety.
Read on roadsafetyngos.orgIndependent media, Zambia Monitor
Yango Zambia and ZRST expand Safer Journeys to School
Independent press coverage of the 2026 expansion from five to 15 additional schools, reaching more than 24,000 children, with Yango Zambia’s Country Head and the Ministry of Transport and Logistics quoted on record.
Read on zambiamonitor.comJune 2026
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
ZRST listed among TRANS-SAFE consortium partners
A European university partner’s project page listing the TRANS-SAFE consortium, including ZRST alongside Technische Universität Berlin, the University of Cape Town, UNEP and UN-Habitat.
View on bth.se