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Renault launches first masters programme for road safety management in arab world

7 May 2012

Thanks to Renault, a valuable partner of the Global Road Safety Partnership, the first Masters programme of its kind in Road Safety Management now exists in the Arab world. Through its corporate foundation, the leading automotive French group has partnered with the prestigious Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Lebanon to establish a Multidisciplinary Chair for Road Safety Management. "The road crashes rate is twice more in the region than in Europe”, affirmed Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Renault-Nissan.

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GRSP MENA's Road Safety Management Workshop

4 May 2012

The Global Road Safety Partnership for the Middle East and North Africa (GRSP MENA), has the pleasure to announce its first workshop within the framework of the EU-MENA support programme. The event will be held in Brussels on the 22nd and 23rd of May, 2012.

Under the theme of "Road Safety Management", this workshop will bring together road safety practitioners and decision-makers from the Southern Mediterranean beneficiary countries to examine road safety issues and situation in their respective countries and to get practical tools for managing road safety and reaching their target.

 

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Road safety in Oman: hope for sustainability and behavioural change

25 March 2012

What motivates Omanis to attend a seminar in Thailand that addresses road safety in Asia? The Global Road Safety Partnership had the privilege to discover the answer first-hand during the annual seminar. “In Oman, we have many more road crash and injury problems with vehicles, and many less with motorcycles and bicycles. The problem in Oman is mainly related to speed and improper driving”, explained Abdullah Ali Nasser Al Maniri, from the College of Medicine & Health Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University.

The reasons for road crash and injury may vary between Oman and Asian countries, but the

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MENA: A regional road safety approach kicks off

29 February 2012

Introducing a culture of road safety in the Middle East and North Africa region has never been easy. Yet it has never prevented the Global Road Safety Partnership from making efforts, and now the hard work of previous years has crystalized into an active work plan for 2012, coupled with a financial commitment to make it happen. 

With one million Euro, the European Union is entrusting the Partnership to carry forward a three-year, capacity building and support project in ten countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Tunisia.

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GRSP MENA ends 2011 with a new start

20 December 2011

By Thalia Rahme

The year 2011 is ending with a new start for the Global Road Safety Partnership team in the Middle East and North Africa region. The team recently began collaborating with a new partner, the European Union (through the European Commission), within the framework of a new project entitled "EuroMed Transport - Support to the MENA Road Safety Programme".

The programme is designed to complement transport activities that the Southern Mediterranean group of countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, and possibly Turkey), are

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Total expanding initiatives for road safety

27 September 2011

Total is present in 130 countries worldwide, and their efforts for road safety are steadily expanding - not only as member of the GRSP Executive Committee, and not only with their road safety initiatives in the Africa/Middle East, but additionally, now as a partner of the Global Road Safety Initiative Phase 2 (GRSI-2).

In July a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Total and GRSI-2 (signed by Andrew Pearce of GRSP), adding Total to a list of five global corporations that provide support to GRSI-2. GRSI-2 is the second phase of the Global Road Safety Initiative, the world's largest

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“STEVE” steps out to end deaths on the roads

10 May 2011

New Animation Campaign Exposes the Hidden Dangers on the Roads Which Kills 3,000 Everyday

On 11 May 2011, at the launch of the Decade of Action for Road Safety, the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and YOURS - Youth for Road Safety have initiated an innovative campaign to build awareness and end death and injuries on the roads.

STEVE - a quirky, lively and poignant animation was developed through discussions at the First Regional Youth Assembly for Road Safety in Oman in February 2011. Deaths due to road crash injuries is the number one killer of youth between 15 and 29 years old.

“It

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Road Safety Champion: "In her own words" - Interview with Amal Al Zdjali, Founder Awladna Initiative, Oman

2 March 2011

For more than three years I've been dreaming that every newborn child in Oman will leave the hospital not only with love and affection, but also a car seat. I have worked very hard over the past two years to make this dream into a reality. And recently, while giving the first car seat away as part of the Awladna Initiative, I feel that I am truly making a difference in the behaviour of people in our society.

My dream was difficult to reach, and it could not have been possible to achieve without the support of many.

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Youth connect around road safety

28 February 2011

Solidarity, connectivity and making a positive change for road safety through social media were among the key themes addressed at the first Regional Road Safety Youth Assembly in Muscat, Oman in mid February. Entitled, 'Connectivity and Moving Forward,' the three-day assembly hosted by the Government of Oman, with technical support from the Global Road Safety Partnership, included representatives from 24 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region who exchanged expertise and discussed various issues related to road-crash death and injury.

The key outcomes of the assembly, which will

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Children play the road safety card

8 February 2011

When Ahmed crosses the street in Amman, he instinctively looks both ways before he takes his first step. But he may not be the only child taking safety precautions in Jordan this year. And that is exactly the goal of this popular board game created by Sesame Workshop and several partners such as Jordan Pioneers, a multimedia production company.

Because young people make up a significant portion of the 1.3 million killed annually in road crashes, the Middle East and North Africa Road Safety Partnership is going to be working with Sesame Workshop in 2011. The goal is to build on initiatives

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