In Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Sunday, Alliance member Arrive Alive hosted their annual walk and ride for road safety in memory of all those seriously injured and those who have lost their lives on the roads of Trinidad and Tobago. Connected to the walk and ride, it organized a traffic park village which brought together a […]
For the first time in Rajasthan, India, this year, the state government has committed to a state-wide campaign for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDoR). At a remembrance ceremony in Jaipur, police, transport, education, youth organizations, crash victims, NGOs, media are coming together at one platform to pay homage to loved […]
At the Stop the Crash launch last month in Shanghai, China, twelve major Chinese car brands — representing 85% of the Chinese car manufacturing market — announced their decision to fit all new auto models with the life-saving, anti-skid technology known as electronic stability control (ESC), from January 2018 onward. ESC can help prevent loss of control […]
This Sunday, the Tibidabo, an emblematic building on a mountain overlooking will be illuminated as a symbol of Alliance member Asociación para la Prevención de Accidentes de Tráfico (P(A)T)’s “light of hope” for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDoR). The position of the building means that it will be visible across […]
The #CommitToAct campaign pushes government leaders to COMMIT to put people first in road safety and ACT to save lives on the road. NGOs around the world are taking up the challenge to get their authorities to make specific commitments based on SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, timebound) principles. Safe Kids Worldwide Philippines (SKWP) has […]
Road traffic crash victims in Catalonia will benefit from a new agreement signed by the Interior and Health Department in October. The agreement ensures that all road victims will be provided with face-to-face support and specialized psychological attention for as long as is considered necessary. The agreement covers both direct and indirect victims, including families, […]
Following from the #SlowDown campaign for UN Global Road Safety Week in May, NGOs including Alliance members, Bien Argentino and Luchemos por la Vida, Argentina, continue to fight for lower speed limits to save lives. On 4 October 2017, they received a major boost to their campaign: a draft amendment to national law 24449 was […]
Chinara Kasmambetova, Road Safety NGO, Kyrgyzstan, was one of the Alliance members who attended the Every Journey, Every Child conference in London. She wrote an article about the conference which is translated into English below. The original version in Russian can be found on their website: http://www.db.kg/news/1810-2017-10-17-06-23-28.html. “128 children were killed, 1754 were injured by road […]
Jean Todt, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, spoke this week at the Global Road Safety Partnership’s ‘Africa Road Safety 2017’ Summit. In his address, he pointed to the 650 deaths that occur on African roads every day and emphasised the importance of safe and sustainable mobility for Africa to fulfil its development potential. He […]
The Every Journey, Every Child conference took place 4 –5 October 2017 in London, UK. The conference featured Zoleka Mandela, Global Ambassador for the Child Health Initiative, and Jean Todt, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety. Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, and Mohammed Sowah, Mayor of Accra, Ghana, discussed the health and mobility […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome a new member organization that joined us in October: Road Safe Sierra Leone (RSSL) is a charitable partnership established in 2011. Its mission is to reduce road deaths and injuries by supporting and encouraging partnerships between private sector businesses, traffic engineers, the police, public health authorities, and road safety professionals to […]
As part of our preparations for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDoR), organized by FEVR, we interviewed a representative from one of the many Alliance member NGOs that commemorate the event, to find out why it is important to the NGO and what their experiences in previous years have taught them. Fundación […]
In 2016 Alliance member Kunhadi, Lebanon, received an Alliance seed grant for an awareness campaign focused on new road traffic laws in Lebanon. Through a survey, they identified one aspect of the law that respondents were most interested in learning about. Their campaign, “Stop before the white lines,” was aimed at convincing drivers to stop before the white […]
In Botswana, the Society of Road Safety Ambassadors (SORSA), led by Alliance Advocate Maatla Otsogile, launched a new project in collaboration with Amend to implement proven-effective road safety measures around primary schools in Gaborone and also to work with government and other stakeholders to ensure the measures are implemented more widely across Botswana. The World Health […]
Gabriela Guida de Freitas, Safe Kids Brasil has made a strong start to her Alliance Advocate training plan to reducie child passenger road deaths by 60% by 2020 through increased use of child restraints. Using an educational video outreach campaign and engaging decision makers to implement stronger child restraint laws, she hopes to reduce the 500 child […]
Small Steps, Big Impacts toward Reducing Global Road Casualties 5 October 2017 Today, the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety (the Alliance), launched its new publication Walking the Talk,1 at the Every Journey, Every Child International Conference organized by the Global Initiative for Child Health and Mobility, in London, UK. Walking the Talk describes […]
Applications are open for the Traffic Safety Scholarship Program sponsored by the Lifesavers National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities. The program is in its third year with funding support from the US Department of Transportation. During this time, it has sponsored more than 60 undergraduate and graduate students from many colleges and universities. The scholarships are open to international […]
The Every Journey, Every Child conference, hosted by the Child Health Initiative is taking place in London, UK. The conference focuses on the imperative to ensure that every child, in every country has the opportunity to reach school via a safe, clean, and healthy route. Speakers include Zoleka Mandela, Global Ambassador, Child Health Initiative, Sadiq […]
On 5 October, the Alliance will launch its new publication Walking the Talk, which presents the Alliance and its members’ response to the SDGs. A number of member stories are included. Read below an extract from the publication: Betty’s Story. “Betty Omoro is using data collection to inform evidence-based action for road safety education along […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome two new member organizations that joined recently: Hope for Victims of Traffic Accidents (HOVITA), Uganda, was founded on the basis of the Uganda police force’s research report on the number of crashes in Uganda. The organization’s vision is “a community free from road accidents”. Its overall mission is to protect the interests […]
