All over the world, the People’s Survey was shared among communities via social media, community events and speaking engagements. Here are a snapshot of some of the ways that NGOs collected responses but many other wonderful NGOs also played their part. A special mention to our NGOs in Greece, especially Road Safety Institute Panos Mylanos […]
The 2019 Australasian Road Safety Conference was held in Adelaide, Australia in September 2019. The theme of the conference was the role of leaders and the community in achieving Vision Zero. This year, for the first time, three Alliance members were among five participants to receive Low- and Middle-Income Country (LMIC) scholarships to attend the […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome three new members who joined us recently. Lakeshore Hope and Relief Zambia, founded in 2015 by Mr. Jones Shamalambo and other road crash victims, aims to reduce the number of preventable deaths and injuries caused by road incidents in Zambia. By centring on victims of road traffic crashes as […]
In 2016, the Supreme Court of India passed a Good Samaritan law to protect bystanders who come to the aid of those injured on the roads. With over 140,000 traffic related deaths per year in India, half of which could be prevented by timely medical attention, the role of the bystander is critical to the […]
This week, representatives from national and local governments, NGOs, the private sector, media and academia have taken part in a two-day training workshop in Senegal designed to equip and mobilize different partners to join forces to improve road safety data. The data training culminated in a joint concrete action plan to assess risks, improve conditions, […]
This week, the preliminary program for the Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety was released. The conference will be held in Sweden on 19-20 February 2020 and its theme is Achieving Global Goals. The conference is extremely important because it marks the end of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2010 (Decade of […]
Fast, effective post-crash care saves lives. This month, Alliance member NGO Bien Argentino held a demo with the emergency services using a helicopter to show how transporting a road victim to hospital quickly can make a big difference. A helicopter takes 20-30 minutes to reach the nearest hospital in the Neuquen area, whereas an ambulance […]
Harpreet Singh, of Avoid Accident, India, was among the 21 Alliance Advocates trained in Delhi in November 2018. For Harpreet, one key message from Advocate training stood out: “Think big, start small, act quickly.” Harpreet has been a well-known face in road safety in his home state of Punjab and at national level for many years, […]
Did you know that wearing a seat belt can increase the chances of surviving a car crash by up to 70 per cent? In many countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asian, the Caucasus and South-East Europe, there is a common misconception that you are safer in a road traffic crash if you do not use […]
In November 2018, 21 Alliance Advocates from around Asia were trained to advocate for safer school zones using a demonstration project. Each one selected a target school in their home city to replicate the project. Now, nine months on, Advocates are seeing success. Om Sharma, President of Safe Drive Save Life, India, was one of […]
The UN Road Safety Trust Fund (UNRSF) was set up in 2018 to boost funding efforts for road safety, which lag far behind funding levels for other non-communicable diseases despite now being the eighth leading cause of death globally. This month in Geneva, the UN Road Safety Trust Fund (UNRSF) Advisory Board had their third […]
On Saturday, 7 September 2019, the Civil Association Working Against Insecurity and Road Violence (ACTIVVAS) hosted a Round the World Roundtable in Neuquén, Argentina. The roundtable was organized by Ema Cibotti, ACTIVVAS President, alongside Fabian Garcia, Secretary of Urban Mobility of the municipality of Neuquén, and Javier Soto Mellado, Undersecretary of Urban Planning and Projects, […]
The Round the World Roundtables came to Europe this week as part of the opening ceremony for European Mobility Week, which started today. Violeta Bulc, the EU Commissioner for Transport, and Mikael Nyberg, representing Finland, which currently holds the EU presidency, presented the EU’s and Member States’ commitment to reducing road deaths and serious injuries […]
Nairobi, Kenya, 10 September 2019 This week, representatives from national governments, NGOs, the private sector, and academia have been taking part in a two-day training workshop designed to equip and mobilize different partners to join forces to improve road safety data. The data training culminated in a joint concrete action plan to assess risks, improve […]
You are invited to participate in a research study under the direction of Drs Margie Peden (George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford), Adnan Hyder (Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University and Chair of M&E project group) and Meleckidzedeck Khayesi (WHO) who have been requested by the […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome the three new members that joined us recently. Creando Conciencia, Argentina, run projects that raise awareness and training about road risk that empower students to be active and responsible on the road, analyzing road risks. They encourage students to remember that they are participants in society and it is important to […]
On 5 August 2019 in India, the long-awaited Motor Vehicle (Amendments) Act was passed. It is hoped that the new act will help to reduce the 31,000 road traffic fatalities that occur in India every year. Alliance member and other road safety NGOs in India have campaigned hard for the contents of the act. A summary […]
The Alliance is working with the International Road Federation, IRF (Geneva), funded by the FIA Road Safety Grant Programme, on a program that combines the training and capacity building expertise of both organizations. Learn, Examine, Review, Act, Replicate, Network (LEARN) develops the knowledge and skills of government agencies, engineers, FIA clubs, teachers, NGOs, journalists, the private sector, and […]
During National Road Victim Month in the UK, Alliance member RoadPeace is focusing on the way that the use of the word “accident” to describe a crash affects the way that it is perceived. “Accident” implies that nothing could have been done to prevent it and that the death toll on our roads is the […]
The Alliance is proud to report that two Round the World Roundtables have taken place in South America this week, with commitments from national governments signed and handed to Jean Todt, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety. The commitments were handed over using the same baton as seen in at the first Round the World […]
