Partnerships

Partner with Zambia Road Safety Trust

We work with partners who want road safety results, not visibility. If a project cannot say what changed, we would rather not sign it.

A partnership with ZRST is a working relationship with Zambia’s road safety implementation partner: a registered Zambian trust with published audited accounts, a stated method, documented results and a habit of reporting evidence in both directions, including where a result falls short.

Daniel Mwamba, ZRST Chief Executive Officer, handing over a report on Climate-Resilient Transport to the Minister of Transport and Logistics, Hon. Frank Tayali, MP, in Lusaka, 2022
Daniel Mwamba, ZRST Chief Executive Officer, handing over a report to the Minister of Transport and Logistics, Hon. Frank Tayali, MP, following the workshop on Climate-Resilient Transport, Lusaka, 2022.
What you are joining

The company ZRST keeps.

ZRST’s partners include Zambian government institutions and councils, two European Union Horizon research consortia, United Nations agencies and funds, international foundations, universities on three continents, and corporate partners whose sponsored school zones now carry their name at the gate.

We name partners only where their role is documented, and we credit results to the partnership that produced them, not to ourselves alone. The full record, with every partner’s documented role and the evidence behind each result, lives on the Programmes & Impact page; how we work day to day is set out in The ZRST Method; and our governance, board and five years of audited statements are on the Governance page. This page repeats none of it. It exists to answer one question: what kind of partner will ZRST be to you?

Our partnership standard

Four questions before any agreement.

Every partnership we sign, whatever its size, must answer these before the first kwacha moves.

What road safety risk are we addressing?

Who is most exposed to that risk?

What practical action will reduce the risk?

How will we show what changed?

If a project cannot answer all four, it is not ready for serious funding, and we will say so, to you, before you spend.
The terms we offer

What every ZRST partner receives, and what we ask in return.

A written scope before work startsYour role, our role, the sites, the budget lines and the evidence framework, agreed on paper first.
Honest reporting, both directionsWhere a measure works, the numbers will show it. Where it falls short, the report will say so and explain what changes next.
Proper credit, protectedYour contribution named accurately in everything we publish, and never claimed by us alone.
Accounts you can openExpenditure reported against the agreed budget, under a trust whose audited statements are already public.

In return we ask for three things: patience with public approval processes, because we do not bypass the authorities who own Zambia’s roads; appetite for honest results rather than guaranteed ones; and a named person on your side who can make decisions. Partnerships fail on missing counterparts more often than on missing money.

Find your route

Four kinds of partner, four dedicated pages.

Each page below sets out what that partnership looks like in practice: what you can fund or commission, what ZRST delivers, and what evidence you receive. This page will not repeat them.

Companies and insurers Fleet and rider safety, sponsored school zones, route risk, and road safety as a cost and reputation issue, not only a social one. Read the companies page → Donors and foundations Programme funding with defined beneficiaries, monitoring frameworks and reporting aligned to your grant requirements. Read the donors page → Government and councils Technical support, assessments, training and delivery alongside your engineers and officers, never around them. Read the government page → Schools and universities Safer school zones, road safety education, research collaboration and student safety on and around campus. Read the schools page →
Start here

Tell us the problem, and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.

One message through our contact form is enough to begin. The most useful first messages tell us four things:

  • The location or community you care about.
  • The road safety problem as you see it.
  • The road users most affected.
  • The kind of support you can provide, funding, commissioning, technical or institutional.

We respond to every serious partnership enquiry, including the ones where our honest answer is that we are not the right organisation for the job.

Contact ZRST about a partnership See the results partners have funded