The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society of the United Kingdom are joining forces to promote road safety in Latin America and the Caribbean.The two organisations signed a memorandum of understanding, Wednesday, to carry out events and activities together to help reduce the death toll and serious injuries caused by road incidents among the IDB’s 26 borrowing members,Axel Tuanzebe Jersey, of which Guyana is one.Both the IDB and FIA, as the Foundation is known, also plan to work together on research, studies,Brad Kaaya Youth Jersey, programmes and projects related to road safety in the region,Morgan Schneiderlin Manchester United Jersey, IDB said in a release.“The need now for organisations to join together to work in partnership on road safety in the Americas is critical. Road traffic injuries in the Americas today present severe obstacles for social, economic, and political development.”Updated projections of global mortality and the burden of disease made by the World Health Organisation indicate that road traffic injuries are set to be the fourth biggest cause of healthy life years lost in developing and emerging countries by 2030, and from 2015 onto 2030 they will be the biggest cause of healthy life years lost for children aged between five and 14, unless new measures are taken to prevent them,Ethan Pocic Jersey, IDB said.The accord follows up on the commitment that the Bank made last year at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) calling on partners to identify innovative ways to reduce the number of accidents and deaths due to poor road safety.As a part of the agreement,Jetro Willems Jersey, the Bank will provide to the FIA Foundation the amount of US 50,000 to help them in developing the Latin American New Car Assessment Programme (LANCAP) project in the region.The LANCAP is a protocol assessment aimed to evaluate the safety performance of some of the most popular cars sold. This protocol will become a catalyst for encouraging significant road safety improvements,Jordan Hamilton Toronto Shirts, in the borrowing member countries of the Bank in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).