This month, five years since it was first founded, the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety welcomes its 200th member: MiNU Asociación Civil. Read more about MiNU and our other new members HERE. Statistics about Alliance members: 200 members 86 countries 6 continents (every continent except Antarctica) 141 members in low- and middle-income countries (based on […]
The UN General Assembly has published “Improving Road Safety”, a report on the progress of the activities and achievements of the global road safety community toward the objectives of the Decade of Action for Road Safety and SDG 3.6 to halve road traffic deaths and injuries by 2020. It points to key milestones since the […]
Alliance member Asociatia Siguranta Auto, Romania have made it their mission to educate the Romanian public to consider safety when buying a car. Founder, Virgil Mihailovici, is passionate about car safety and the role of cars in protecting road users. As a former journalist who worked for motoring publications, he spent many years reporting on […]
The third FISEVI will be held 12–13 June 2018 in Buenos Aires, and will be hosted by the Argentinian Ministry of Transport through its National Road Safety Agency. Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez, with the Global Child Health Initiative, FIA Foundation, and UNICEF is organizing FISEVI 2018 with the theme of ensuring a safe journey from/to school to all children […]
Each year the Center for Disease Control (CDC)’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control organizes Child Passenger Safety Week to raise awareness of the importance of child restraints in cars. This year, they are organizing a social media thunderclap on 18 September 2017 at 12.00 EST (16.00 UTC). You can join the thunderclap on Facebook, Twitter, […]
The Alliance is delighted to have been invited to host a special session at the IRF World Road Meeting which will be held 14–17 November 2017 in New Delhi, India. The session will explore the role of NGOs in delivering SDGs 3.6 and 11.2. It will consider case studies of multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, […]
“In low and middle income countries, the cost of road traffic injuries lies between one to two percent of GDP, which clearly suggests that countries like Bangladesh should adopt immediate measures to reduce losses caused by road accidents and keep pace with the nation’s transition to becoming a middle-income economy by 2021.” Alliance member BRAC, know well […]
Vulnerable Road Users, which include pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists and non-motorized transport, account for more than 30% of road fatalities worldwide. The International Road Federation (IRF) and the Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center (QTTSC) are running a training program on Vulnerable Road User Safety at Qatar University from 24-26 September 2017 in Doha, Qatar. The […]
Alliance member LASER International are organizing the First Wallonia Road Safety Film Festival as part of the European Mobility Week. The festival will be held 18 – 19 September 2017, Namur, Belgium. The festival celebrates the implementation of the Resolution on Road Safety adopted in Madagascar by the Summit of Heads of State and Government, […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn.,US, 28 August, 2017—The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety has graduated their second cohort of Alliance Advocates. The 14 graduates, from 14 different countries on five continents, have completed two weeks of intensive training in Memphis, Tennessee (USA), headquarters city for FedEx Express. They will now take the action plans they have […]
On Wednesday 23 August, the Alliance Advocates and iRAP were featured on WMC Action News 5 in Memphis as they tested the new iRAP Star Ratings for Schools app. The feature showed the 14 Alliance Advocates out and about in a school area in Memphis testing out the new app, which allows users to determine […]
Alliance member Road Accident Prevention Network Centre (RAPNEC) in Nigeria are seeking participants to assist them in their baseline study into road safety behavior, looking at traffic devices, measures and regulation including legislation in the general population in Nigeria. The expected outcome will also become a working instrument for policy makers and a road map […]
A recent survey of 1000 drivers in the Philippines found that: 18.5% of drivers are aware or have heard of child restraints prior to the survey. 9.3% curently use child restraints, and 19% replied yes to the question, “Have you ever used child restraints/child car seats? 6.2% among the 1,569 child passengers of respondents use child […]
The Alliance Advocate program is the centerpiece of the Alliance’s capacity-building effort, the Alliance Empowerment Program. Its function is to equip an elite group of Alliance member NGOs to make a significant impact on the road safety agenda around the world. Texel Cossa, Amend, Mozambique, and David Razboršek, Zavod VOZIM, Slovenia are two of the 2017 […]
The Lifesavers Conference Planning Committee (LPC) is accepting speaker proposals for the 2018 Conference which will be held 22–24 April 2018 in San Antonio, Texas. Proposals must be submitted via Lifesavers’ online portal and will be accepted until 31 August 31 2017. All speaker proposals are carefully reviewed for their applicability to the Lifesavers Conference […]
Alcohol is one of the top two causes of road crashes in Mozambique. Alliance member, Mozambique Association for Victims or Road Insecurity (AMVIRO) believes that cultural attitudes toward alcohol play a big part in this: being generous with alcohol is a marker of status and wealth, and a party is not a party without alcohol. […]
In June 2017, the annual Federación Iberoaméricana De Asociaciones De Víctimas Contra La Violencia Vial (FICVI) international conference was held in Costa Rica with the theme “Integral Care for Victims of Traffic Accidents” The high point of the conference this year was the opportunity to present to the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica and to […]
Of Alliance members surveyed in the learning needs assessment in 2015, 68% considered funding to be their biggest challenge. This is backed up in the draft proposal for a new UN road safety fund produced by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which finds that road injury prevention currently is “not adequately funded at local, […]
Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety Equips Road Safety Advocates to Save Lives Graduates to Lead Development of Road Safety Initiatives by NGOs in 15 Countries MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 14, 2017 —Today, the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety (the Alliance) launched its second Alliance Advocate Training Program at FedEx Express World Headquarters […]
The UN have produced a draft proposal for a UN Road Safety Fund to support achievement of SDGs 3.6 and 11.2. This is a very positive move that elevates road safety as a public health issue and sets the agenda for how it should be recognized by our governments. As road safety NGOs and experts, […]
