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In late October 2011, within the Bloomberg Philanthropies Road Safety in 10 Countries project, the Global Road Safety Partnership organized two workshops on Seat-belts and Child Restraints Management for 70 management level road safety stakeholders in Turkey. Representatives of the traffic police, health departments, and transport and highway authorities joined the Chamber of Drivers, Turkish Red Crescent Society, universities, and non-governmental organizations to enhance their knowledge of seat-belts and child restraints use and prepare draft strategies for increasing their use.

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Two and a half years ago, I was asked what it was that I felt was holding back the global road safety movement.  "Fragmentation and lack of investment", I said, "and it's the fragmentation that causes the lack of investment, so all we really need to do is create alignment!"

Two years on, and with the really hard work of many organisations, we are seeing global alignment happening at an ever-increasing pace, and we are seeing additional investments as well.

We've seen the alignment around the November 2009 Moscow Ministerial Conference, and over 100 countries co-sponsoring the UN Resolution