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, […]
“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 […]
