CITA at DUSRA 2026
25 March 2026 / Abidjan, Ivory Coast | CITA once again contributed to the Diplôme Universitaire Sécurité Routière pour l’Afrique (DUSRA), a road safety diploma programme led by the Université Gustave Eiffel and developed in partnership with CITA. The initiative aims to strengthen road safety expertise across French-speaking African countries by providing specialized training for professionals working in transport and road safety.
The DUSRA programme addresses the urgent need to improve road safety in regions where road traffic injuries remain a major public health and development challenge. It provides a comprehensive training framework covering public road safety policies, infrastructure and engineering, speed management, risk behaviours, prevention measures, accident data analysis and other key aspects of safer mobility systems.
Representing CITA, Mr. Eduard Fernández, Executive Director, delivered lectures to the programme participants through virtual sessions on 12–13 March 2026, followed by a face-to-face lecture on 25 March 2026 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
His lectures focused on the role of vehicle regulatory frameworks in improving road safety and covered several key topics:
- Regulations for new vehicles – approval and homologation
- Regulations for registering new vehicles
- Regulations for periodic vehicle inspections
- Regulations for mass transport vehicles
- Regulations for heavy-duty vehicles
Through these sessions, participants gained insights into the regulatory mechanisms that ensure vehicles entering and operating within the transport system meet safety and compliance requirements.
The DUSRA programme is structured around the five pillars of road safety defined by the World Health Organization—road safety management, safer infrastructure, safer vehicles, safer road users and post-crash response—offering participants a comprehensive and structured understanding of road safety challenges in the specific context of French-speaking African countries.
CITA’s participation in the 2026 edition builds on its continued engagement with the programme. In 2025, Mr. Fernández also contributed to the DUSRA training in Cotonou, Benin, delivering a lecture on best practices in vehicle inspection systems and international cooperation in road safety.