Global Road Safety Initiative
The Global Road Safety Initiative (GRSI) is funded by seven of the world’s largest automotive and oil companies that have committed USD 10 million to road safety. GRSI is a five year programme, 2005-2009, and is being implemented by GRSP. The companies involved are Ford, GM, Honda, Michelin, Renault, Shell and Toyota.
GRSI focuses on the critical road safety issues identified in the World report on road traffic injury prevention (2004, WHO and World Bank). These include pedestrian safety, drinking and driving, helmet use, speed management and seat belt use. GRSI will build upon the good practice guides on these issues being developed by GRSP, WHO, World Bank and FIA-Foundation under the auspices of the UN roadsafety collaboration (www.who.int/roadsafety/en/). It will provide training to road safety professionals in developing countries, and seed money to support pilot projects to improve road safety in these countries.
This initiative builds on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Sustainable Mobility Project, which released its final report in July 2004. The report identified increasing road traffic fatality rates in developing countries as an impediment to mobility becoming sustainable by 2030.
GRSI will help to build the capacity of developing countries to reduce traffic fatalities and will build on and expand GRSP’s capability to deliver road safety improvements in line with the recommendations of the World Report on road traffic injury prevention.
GRSI targets three regions or very large countries with substantial road safety problems. The first to be confirmed was the ASEAN region, building on the regional and national road safety plans which have been developed with the support of the Asian Development Bank. China is the second and Brazil is the third.
Click here to read the GRSI Interim Report
To read more about GRSI regional activities please choose one of the following links:
GRSI in ASEAN
GRSI in China
GRSI in Brazil