Recently, the Alliance was part of the advisory network meeting for WHO’s Global Plan for Physical Activity and a number of Alliance members provided input. Read more HERE. The draft plan is now available for consultation. The Alliance will be compiling a response to the consultation and we need your input and comments. This is […]
The ‘Every Journey, Every Child’ conference takes a child health perspective to showcase, to an international policy audience, London’s approach to tackling air pollution and implementing healthy streets, and to demonstrate – with examples from the US, Latin America, Africa and Asia – how other major cities around the world are grappling with similar issues […]
This month, Jeffrey Witte, President, represented the Alliance at the first meeting of the strategic advisory network on the creation of a Global Plan for Physical Activity organized by WHO. He took with him inputs from Alliance members around the world, including People’s Trust Jaipur, India; Fundação Thiago de Moraes Gonzaga, Brazil; Project CARES, Philippines; and […]
This year, 44 countries performed Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) of their progress toward the SDGs and reported on them at the UN High Level Political Forum this month. So far, about one third of countries submitting VNRs this year mention mobility. The road safety SDG has been reviewed byBangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Brazil, […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome five new member organizations that joined recently: Association Tariq Essalama Bejaia, Algeria organizes awareness campaigns to sensitive road users about the risk factors that cause traffic crashes (speed, mobile phone usage, alcohol, drowsiness, helmet use) and have been running road safety education in schools every week for five years. Another project […]
Halving the number of road traffic deaths and injuries by 2020 and providing access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all by 2030, are big challenges and require significant upscaling of road safety initiatives. WHO has released the Save LIVES technical package to support road safety decision-makers and practitioners as they seek to […]
According to Alliance member Australian Road Safety Foundation, an average of 5.3 people lose their lives in traffic crashes in Australia every Friday, making Fridays one of the deadliest day of the week. In 2016, there were only two Fridays with no reported road fatalities. While there is no clear reason why motorists are at […]
Resulting from the recent 2017 Highways England Symposium in March, Road Safety Analysis with Highways England have produced a new report titled Paving the Way; putting behaviour change at the heart of a safe system. The report examines the current context and future trends, raising questions about the maturity of the road sector, the culture of […]
Apple has announced that its next iPhone software update, due for launch in the fall, will feature a “do not disturb while driving” mode. The iOS 11 update will provide all iPhones, not just new ones, with the function, which is designed to address the dangers associated with smartphones and distraction. Once the update has taken […]
Fondation Botnar and the Global Road Safety Partnership have announced the launch of the Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge. The Challenge is designed to fund projects that address locally relevant road safety problems with practical, innovative and evidence-based interventions. The Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge is seeking proposals from consortiums representing partners from government, civil society and […]
What challenges do pedestrians and cyclists face in cities of the developing world? What opportunities do these cities have to provide for walking and cycling? Based on in-depth research conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Nairobi (Kenya), a newly-published book, Non-Motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning in Africa, explores […]
Around 90% of children at Bophirimi Primary School, Gaborone, Botswana, walk to school along a busy road, many of them on their own. Tumiso Selaledi of the Society of Road Safety Ambassadors (SORSA) is one of the 2018 Africa cohort of Alliance Advocates. She chose Bophirimi School for her safe school zone project. Assessing the […]
In February 2019, the Alliance launched a new social responsibility collaboration with FedEx Express Europe, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp, utilizing the expertise of the European Cyclists Federation (ECF), that aims to improve safety for vulnerable road users in Balkan cities. The Safer Cycling Advocate Program will empower NGOs to promote measures to improve cycling […]
As part of our follow-up communications for UNGRSW, we interviewed Rod King, founder of the UK-based NGO 20’s Plenty for Us. Rod was a key figure in the UNGRSW #SlowDown campaign. He was instrumental in helping to identify the target of 30 kilometers per hour for roads with possible conflicts between cars and unprotected users, […]
AVA Togo’s UNGRSW event literally slowed down the traffic. A caravan of 50 two-wheelers and a number of cars, trucks, and an ambulance, drove (slowly) around Togo’s capital city Lome from 8.00 until 14.00. The caravan departed from the sea front and proceeded through the most important streets of the city handing out flyers on […]
Alliance member Usalama Watch Initiative is on the brink of a major breakthrough in Kenya. Because of their advocacy, a national bill to ensure children a safer journey to and from school has passed its final reading in Parliament. It now needs only to be presented formally by the Attorney General for Presidential Ascension before coming […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome four new member organizations that joined recently: Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB) works to prevent injury through research and innovation. CIPRB saves lives by delivering programs throughout Bangladesh designed to combat injury-based fatalities. Projects include a pilot demonstration project on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway, known as the deadliest road in […]
Luchemos por la Vida received great news this week: the National Road Safety Agency (ANSV) have committed to raise their proposal for reduced speed limits to the Federal Court, which represents the provinces, and to present the draft to the National Legislature, in due course. The NGO started their campaign during the Fourth UN Global Road […]
Amma Oduro-Dankwah of Amend, Ghana. wrote a blog piece about her experiences at the Global Meeting. “I attended pre-meeting workshops on NGO partnerships with multilateral banks, child-centered road safety education, addressing gender and risk in road safety and safe school journeys. I learned about so many issues that are usually overlooked when considering road safety. […]
The International Road Federation (IRF Geneva), supporting global action aiming at halving the number of road death and injuries from road crashes by 2020 has released a new knowledge repository on road safety. The Global Transport Knowledge Practice (gTKP) hosts work produced by Project Group 1 and Project Group 2 of the United Nations Road […]
