For UN Global Road Safety Week, Alliance member People’s Trust Jaipur worked with female students at IIS Deemed To Be University, Mansarovar, to highlight to the issues faced by women walking in the city. The NGO conducted a safety audit walk with female students, documenting the presence and absence of pedestrian facilities in the kilometer […]
In El Salvador, Alliance member MOVES is working through partnerships and collaborations to make public transport safer for women. It has used the UN Global Road Safety Week to strengthen these collaborations. In 2019, the El Salvadorian government approved a landmark law on violence against women. It included appointment of a specialist judge for cases […]
On 23 May 2023, the Alliance held a livestreamed panel discussion from a tram traveling around downtown Leipzig. The panel featured Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir, Minister for Transport and Telecommunications, Chile, Veronique Feypell, ITF, and Natalia Lleras, Walk21. Following from the recent UN Global Road Safety Week, the panel explored how to rethink mobility to […]
This year’s UN Global Road Safety Week is a call to action to #RethinkMobility to make it safe for those who walk, cycle, and take public transport. Doing so will save lives, especially in those countries where these active modes of transport are already the primary way that people get around. It will also facilitate […]
30 km/h zones or lower where people walk, bike, live, and play, are a key tool for making roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists. In India, a national federal mandate exists for 25 km/h limits around schools. However, responsibility for implementing the mandate lies with state-level authorities, many of whom were not aware that it […]
NGOs are the eyes, ears, and voices of their communities. Find below two stories from two cities, Chandigarh and Patiala, Punjab, India, demonstrating how Alliance members are representing pedestrians and other vulnerable road users and collecting data to show their authorities what needs to be done to make walking and cycling safe in their cities. […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome five new members who joined recently. Full members Bicitekas A.C., Mexico, was founded in 1998 to promote non-motorized mobility projects that have a positive impact on the well-being of society. The NGO uses walks, cultural activities and campaigns to promote bicycle use. It is also active in advocacy, demanding public policies […]
Award highlights NGOs’ commitment and advocacy for road safety San Salvador, El Salvador Three NGO members of the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety (the Alliance) have been awarded the FedEx Road Safety Award for their outstanding commitment to road safety and the NGO community, growth, and advocacy for evidence-based interventions that contribute to […]
Today, the Alliance launches its Accountability Toolkit. The toolkit is a set of practical, web-based tools. It offers tangible steps to equip NGOs to hold their governments accountable for the safety of all road users by reducing road deaths and injuries by 50% by 2030, in alignment with the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road […]
In February 2023, in Tunisia, decree 151/2000 has been approved for 30 km/h zones around schools across the country. The decree was approved during a meeting of the Council of Ministers, presided over by Prime Minister Naglaa Boudin Ramadan. The new decree is an advocacy success for Alliance member Les Ambassadeurs de la Sécurité Routière […]
The Alliance is delighted to welcome the four new members that joined us recently. Full members Road Safety Education Limited (RSE) is a not-for-profit delivering road safety education to Australian and New Zealand high schools, primarily through their flagship, RYDA program. To date over 725,000 young people have participated in RYDA since 2001. Supported by […]
Read about some of the Alliance’s key moments in 2022. These moments back up members’ advocacy in their countries and enable the Alliance to represent the NGO perspective in the global road safety arena: MARCH: NGOs launched global and regional Calls to Action at the Seventh Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims (Global Meeting). […]
“I have been impressed by the growing success of work being done by NGOs, usually working in partnership,” said HRH Prince Michael of Kent, announcing the 2022 Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards. “I am especially pleased that many of my award winners this year reflect this significant development.” We congratulate all the winners of […]
In the run up to World Day of Remembrance 2022, a new memorial to crash victims was inaugurated in Parque de Madrid Rios by the city authorities in collaboration with Alliance member NGO Stop Accidentes. The memorial, a bronze sculpture by sculptor Rosa Serra, consisting of two figures leaning against each other and holding a […]
Zambia passed a new national law in 2019 that reduced speed limits on urban roads to 30km/h. Since then, Zambia Road Safety Trust (ZRST) has been collaborating with the government to implement the law in school zones, working school by school. ZRST’s efforts have been assisted by the LEARN project, a joint initiative from the […]
The Alliance is delighted to welcome six new members that joined the Alliance recently. Full members Bicicultura, Chile, is a non-profit organization (OSFL), founded in 2006, based in the commune of Ñuñoa, Chile, working in sustainable mobility, which has been working for 13 years in Chile. It has vast experience working with the public, private, […]
On 18 November 2022, WHO held an online global commemoration for World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims featuring testimonies on the theme of Remember, Support, Act. Among those telling their personal stories were Alliance members Donna Price, International Road Victims Partnership and Irish Road Victims Association, and Monica Dongban Mensem, Keep Roads Safe […]
LEARN is a joint initiative between IRF and the Alliance, which brings together national government officials, police, road safety NGOs, private sector, and academia to learn how to gather and analyze road safety data more effectively and to use that data to implement effective interventions that will reduce road deaths and injuries. Through the project, […]
To mark the anniversary of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action 2021-2030 (Global Plan), the Alliance held an online session to review progress so far toward the Decade of Action. The session comprised remarks from keynote speakers and a panel discussion featuring leaders from government, private sector, youth, and an NGO. It looked […]
To profile the value of engaging with NGOs to make cities safer and more livable, the Alliance organized a side-event at the International Transport Forum’s Safer City Streets conference last week. Safer City Streets is a global network of around 50 cities seeking to improve their urban road safety performance. NGOs are natural partners for […]
