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 […]
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, […]
