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Project assistant position for road safety project "Save our Lives" (08-03-2010)
The contract (70%) will be for three years at the Institute of Geography of the University of Tübingen (Germany).
GRSP seeks project manager for road injury provention programme (05-03-2010)
The Global Road Safety Partnership is seeking a full time project manager for a 22 month period, please click on the following link for more information and to make an application https://jobnet.ifrc.org/public/hrd-cl-vac-view.asp?jobinfo_uid_c=1735&vaclng=en
Drinking and driving dips in two Chinese cities after the multi-sector involved project (29-01-2010)
Levels of drinking and driving declined significantly in two cities where the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) together with a multi-sector team of government agencies and business organizations conducted a four-year drinking and driving project (2006-2009).
GRSP joins in regional road safety programme in Northern Poland Region (19-01-2010)
The Road Safety Council of the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Region in Poland has invited the Global Road Safety Partnership-Poland to join their ambitious and comprehensive road safety program, which aims to reduce road deaths and accidents over the next three years.
Ministers join call for Decade of Action (21-12-2009)
Government ministers from 70 countries gathered in Moscow for the first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in November and pledged to gear up road safety efforts and formally ask the United Nations to declare 2011-2020 the "Decade of Action for road safety."
PrintGRSP-Zambia maps its future; takes community approach (03-12-2009)
A mapping exercise to identify problem road safety sites was just one part of a comprehensive two-day workshop aimed at developing community solutions to Zambia's growing road safety problem.
Entitled "Road safety in Lusaka City and community approaches to road safety," the workshop was opened by the city council of Lusaka, Zambia, and organized by GRSP Zambia and the global Transport Knowledge Partnership (gTKP), Nov. 18-19.
The event drew roughly 40 people from all sectors (police, transport, business, civil society, health, among others) and covered a wide range of issues, from emergency response, to education, enforcement and fleet safety initiatives.
The workshop culminated with the singing of a memorandum of understanding between GRSP-Zambia and the Global Road Safety Partnership in Geneva. Switzerland, as well as the as the adoption of a constitution for the new partnership.
"The event went extremely well with many good and very informative presentations in the opening session," said GRSP advisor Rikke Rysgaard. "Following this, we had very productive discussions and a mapping exercise to identify dangerous spots in Lusaka, which we can use in our further work with Lusaka City. On the second day we discussed supportive fleet, injury prevention and educational and awareness initiatives.
"The road safety lead agency in Zambia, RTSA, and its partners within GRSP Zambia have made impressive progress under the guidance of the GRSP Country Advisor over the past 10 months," said GRSP Africa coordinator Pieter Venter. "This achievement is an indication of Zambia's commitment to reach the objectives set by the African Ministers of Transport in the 2007 Accra Declaration on Road Safety."
Brazil city and GRSP win Prince Michael of Kent International Road Safety Award (02-12-2009)
GRSP is delighted to announce that His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent has approved that The Brazilian city of São José dos Campos and the Global Road Safety Partnership should receive a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in recognition of its improvement in the control of road safety in the city since 2006.
GRSP teams with Ghana’s front-line road safety ambassadors (23-11-2009)
GRSP Ghana's on-going collaboration with police and transport officials in Ghana continued to bear fruit with a series of workshops and interactive training sessions designed to helping the country manage a wide range of road safety and policing challenges.
Leading global businesses launch second phase of Global Road Safety Initiative (23-11-2009)
Four leading energy and transport companies have pledged to fund a further, five-year second phase of the of the Global Road Safety Initiative (GRSI), the world's largest joint commitment of private sector resources toward road safety in low- and middle-income countries. The Initiative will be managed by the Global Road Safety Partnership, a not-for-profit hosted project of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Global Road Safety Partnership to receive grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to help reduce road crash (18-11-2009)
The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), a hosted project of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), will receive a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to collaborate in a five-year, 125-million-USD programme to reduce death and serious injury on the roads of ten low- and middle-income countries that between them, account for 48% of the global total of road crash deaths and injuries.