Month: March 2015


Small Grants for Child Reporting for #SaveKidsLives

#SaveKidsLives is the worldwide campaign for the Third United Nations Global Road Safety Week in May 2015. The campaign calls for action to save children’s lives on the roads around the world. The Alliance has a few grants available for Alliance members to collaborate with media to highlight stories or programmes produced by children on road […]

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How are road safety NGOs responding to the COVID-19 pandemic?

In a matter of only a few days, it feels as though the world has changed: plans and events are cancelled, jobs and funding are at risk, travel is minimized. This presents huge challenges for most organizations, including those in the road safety sector. Specifically, we see a number of issues that impact the work […]

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Global Meeting 2015

On March 13 and 14 more than 170 delegates from over 52 countries representing 100 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gathered in Marrakech, Morocco at the Zalagh Kashbar Hotel & Spa in Marrakech, Morocco for the 4th Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims. The Global Meeting is organized by the Global […]

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#SaveKidsLives in Nepal

Swatantrata Abhiyan, a member organization of the Alliance in Nepal, conducted a number of activities last December 2014 in support of the #SaveKidsLives campaign. A group of youth volunteers trained by Swatantrata Abhiyan visited six different schools situated mostly on the “boundary less” side of the road that seem to provide unsafe mobility for children, […]

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The Global Road Safety Partnership to launch Round 7 of the Road Safety Grants Programme on 11 March 2015.

The primary objective of the Road Safety Grants Programme’s is to support civil society organizations in selected low- and middle-income countries to advocate for policy change to protect road users.  It also supports civil society organizations to promote the successful implementation of evidence-based policies.  Since its inception the programme has awarded 35  grants to 27 […]

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Global Meeting – one week to go

The Alliance Global Meeting is one week away. The meeting will be held at Zalagh Kashbar Hotel & Spa in Marakech Morocco on 13, 14 March 2015. Months have gone into the planning and we are exited about two days of networking, share best practices, advocacy work and building our capacities to implement road safety programs. We […]

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