“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, […]
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 […]
