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NGO Symposium

As the leading voice for civil society on road safety and with the main purpose of creating a significant demand for safe roads, we will convene our members and road safety community for an NGO symposium on 17 February 2025 in Marrakech, Morocco, addressing the most urgent and critical issues that the road safety community face.

The symposium, hosted with WHO and the Government of Morocco and in partnership with FIA Foundation, takes place in the immediate lead up to the Ministerial Meeting on Road Safety, and thereby sets the stage for specific outcomes and commitments. 

The NGO symposium will take the shape of three interconnecting sessions: practical workshops that showcase the practices we know will save lives, a symposium that focuses on investment in evidence-based interventions, and a street-activation that calls for action and demonstrates that every life matters and that no one should die in a crash.

All these will culminate in a civil society call to action.

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Venue

Palais de Congres, Marrakech, Morocco

Time

12:30–18:00

Audience

NGOs (Alliance members, local Moroccan, and others) and other civil society organizations including youth, global stakeholders, government authorities, academics, media, private sector. Anyone with an interest in commitments to achieve the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030.

Agenda

12:30–13:00 Opening

  • Welcome: Lotte Brondum, Executive Director, Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety
  • Moment of silence for road traffic victims: Rochelle Sobel, President, ASIRT
  • Video message: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization
  • Keynote speaker: Abdessamad Kayouh, Minister for Transport, Morocco
  • Keynote speaker: Etienne Krug, Director, Social Determinants of Health, WHO 
  • Keynote speaker: Saul Billingsley, Executive Director, FIA Foundation

13:00-14:30 Session one: Roles and commitments

Part one: case studies

  • Case study NGO: Afef Ben Ghenia, President, Les Ambassadeurs de la Sécurité Routière, Tunisia
  • Case study Private sector: Jacques-Emmanuel Saulnier, Senior Vice President Citizenship Engagement, TotalEnergies Foundation

Part two: panel discussion

Moderator: Paola Carvajal, Founder, Movidana, Ecuador

Panel:

  • Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir, Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Chile;
  • Benacer Boulaajoul, Director, NARSA, Morocco;
  • Tatiana Mihailova, Director, Automobile Club of Moldova;
  • Oliva Nalwadda, Global Road Safety Youth Ambassador, Uganda;
  • Dipak Dash, Senior Assistant Editor, Times of India.

14:30-15:00 Group photograph and coffee break

15:00-15:15 Announcements

15:15-16:45 Session two: Achieving a change in financing for road safety worldwide: The way forward

Panel discussion

Moderator: Avi Silverman, Deputy Director, FIA Foundation, UK

Panel:

  • Priti Gautam, Road Safety Lead, Asian Development Bank;
  • Esteban Diez Roux, Senior Transport Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank;
  • Bronwen Thornton, CEO, Walk21 Foundation, UK;
  • Tom Bishop, Programs Director, Amend; 
  • Humphrey Kanyenye, Coordinator of World Bank Financing for the TARURA Tanzania Roads Agency; 
  • Bosco Marti, Global Director of Institutional Affairs and Communications, Fundacion Aleatica, Mexico.

16:45-17:15 Closing

  • Keynote speaker: Jean Todt, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety
  • Closing: Lotte Brondum, Executive Director, Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety

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