Kapan is a city in Southern Armenia. UN Global Road Safety Week was an opportunity for Alliance member National Road Safety Council (NRSC) to run the first event of this kind in the city. While often campaigns focus on the major cities in a country, speed is just as much of an issue in the […]
Riders of motorized two- and three-wheeled vehicles account for 53% of road deaths in the Philippines. Yet in a survey of hospitals, while 62% of road injuries were motorcycle riders, only 4% were wearing a helmet. According to another report, children on motorcycles are more vulnerable to injury than adults because their brains and skulls […]
In Mozambique, children aged between 6 and 12 had the opportunity to be the judges in a speeding court set up by Amend Mozambique and Amviro in collaboration with the Mozambique traffic police. Escola Completa Da Imaculada is a primary school with 1398 children situated on a busy road with no traffic-calming mechanisms: no school signs, speed […]
A key output from Cambodia Movement For Health’s Slow Down campaign has been production of a video published to make the public, and especially drivers, aware of the dangers of speeding and remind them to comply with speed limits. The video demonstrates the consequences of speeding using images of crashes and features children, teachers, policemen, business […]
There were impressive scenes outside the Cultural Center, Velenje, Slovenia, on Monday 8 May when Zavod VOZIM hosted their Slow Down event. Smoke poured out of the bonnet of a demonstration car as firemen demonstrated how they rescue victims from a car crash and rows of participants learnt CPR from paramedics. The police highlighted the importance […]
Since the beginning of 2017, three students at school #72 in Dushande, Tajikistan, have already been injured in road crashes near the school. Speeding is a big problem in this busy area near two main roads. As part of their UN Global Road Safety Week activities, Youth Led NGO “Young Generation of Tajikistan” organized a […]
27 April 2017 was National Road Safety Day in Iran and Alliance member Road Safety Pioneers took advantage of this opportunity to start their #SlowDown activities early and gain some momentum. Director Ali Zayerzadeh is a keen photographer as well as a road safety campaigner. It is therefore no surprise that the run up to […]
All around the world, Alliance members are joining with other NGOs, local and national governments, corporations and other organizations to run Slow Down days and other activities in support of the #SlowDown theme for the Fourth UN Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW). Over the next two weeks, we will be profiling some of the wide […]
Mary Williams, Founder and Chief Executive of Alliance member Brake, has written a blog entitled “More Resourcing and a Louder Voice” that reflects on the Global Meeting and the wider global road safety environment that NGOs face. Here are extracts from the blog and you can read the full blog article HERE: “The strength of road […]
Global Meeting Focuses on Halving Road Deaths by 2020 7 April 2017 The biannual Fifth Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Honorable Dato’ Sri Liow Tiong Lai, Minister, Ministry of Transport Malaysia, officiated the Meeting’s opening on 5 April, followed by a […]
Today 3 April 2017, the biannual Fifth Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims convened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This media note is to alert journalists that news will emerge as the week goes on. The Honorable Dato’ Sri Liow Tiong Lai, Minister, Ministry of Transport Malaysia, will officiate […]
Maatla Otsogile is the Founder and Coordinator of, Society of Road Safety Ambassadors (SORSA), Botswana’s first youth and children-focused road safety NGO that is committed to supporting the Government to improve road safety. He is also co-founder and Vice-Chairperson of the SADC Alliance of Road Safety NGOs. He has long since been interested in road […]
Alliance member Amend will receive USD 1.7 million over three years to fund their School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) program in 10 African countries (Benin, Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia). Worldwide, over 1.2 million people die in road crashes every year. The world’s highest road traffic injury rates […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome the new member who joined in January: ProtectMD Foundation, Moldova, was founded in 2011 with the main objective of promoting “democratic values and sense of justice” through information, road safety education and promotion of strategies to improve safety, Their “Road Safety Education for Parents” project, in partnership with the […]
The United Nations’ Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) held in Quito in October 2016 was a momentous event for road safety in many ways. Not only did it strengthen the commitment of the global community to make road safety a priority in urban planning through the New Urban Agenda, but it […]
The Safe Roads | Safe Kids Summit takes place every other year. The 2016 conference took place in Washington DC on 8-9 December and was designed to increase the visibility of global road safety on the international agenda and to decrease the number of deaths and injuries among children. This year, the Alliance participated in the event by contributing […]
The Safe Road | Safe Kids Summit is rapidly approaching on December 8-9, 2016 in Washington, DC, and many dynamic and compelling speakers have been added to the program. To view the latest agenda, please click here. The Summit will focus on protecting kids on the move, and it will develop actionable strategies for achieving […]
It has been a few months since the Alliance Advocates graduated from their training in Memphis, Tennessee and many have already made great headway on their projects. Safe Kids Malaysia distributed helmets to children in 17 schools and discussed the implementation of rules and regulations for children safety on motorcycles. Swatantrata Abhiyan Nepal held a […]
Safer Australian Roads and Highways (SARAH) was formally founded in May 2013 a year after their first Yellow Ribbon Road Safety Week in May 2012. SARAH’s mission is to undertake research initiatives that bring about improved road safety, and support those affected by road tragedy. SARAH’s main initiative in the Yellow Ribbon National Road Safety […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome the new members who joined the Alliance in September: BRAC works in Bangladesh to create community road safety programs for “crash congested” high speed roads. BRAC developed a road safety animation television film series to raise road safety awareness for children, and in 2012 they created a driving raining programme […]
