It is with a great sense of pride that we announce Professor Barry Watson has accepted the appointment as new Chief Executive Officer of GRSP. Barry is the current Director of Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety (CARRS-Q) in Brisbane, Australia. He has over 30 years’ experience in road safety…
On January 13 in Hanoi, Vietnam, the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), Vietnam’s governmental authority on road safety, officially launched its National Child Helmet Action Plan to promote child helmet use across the country. The National Child Helmet Action Plan is coordinated by the NTSC and its department members, including the ministries of Education and…
Follow up story to article published December 8 In continued reporting on efforts to assist with the passage of the new Land Traffic Law which aims to improve the safety on Cambodia’s notoriously dangerous roads, following the December approval of the final chapters of the law by the National Assembly, two further important and final…
Media Release from Global Road Safety Partnership South Africa (GRSP ZA) While the recently released road traffic crash statistics for the 2014-2015 festive season show a marginal decline from the corresponding figures of the 2013-2014 season, they still make for grim reading. According to the figures released by Minister Dipuo Peters on 9 January 2015,…
A consortium of partners including the Global Road Safety Partnership, World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins International School of Public Health, World Bank Global Road Safety Facility, Association of Safe International Road Travel and the World Resources Institute (EMBARQ) received funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies to collaborate in a five-year, 125-million-USD programme to reduce death and serious…
The UN Road Safety Collaboration is pleased to announce the global campaign for the Third UN Global Road Safety Week, 4-10 May 2015, on the theme children and road safety: #SaveKidsLives. The campaign seeks to highlight the plight of children on the world’s roads, generate action to better ensure their safety and promote the inclusion…
Back in May 2012, the first EuroMed Road Safety Regional Workshop was conducted in Brussels, Belgium. During December 2014, the project partners again convened in the Belgian capital for the final workshop to conclude the 3 year EU funded programme managed by the Global Road Safety Partnership. The delegates from the beneficiary countries met with…
Française Continuing the series of country workshops in the EuroMed Road Safety project, on December 11, two delegates representing Algerian police and civil defence travelled to Beirut for a full day workshop to review the progress of their national pilot project. The internal review tool developed in cooperation with IFRC PMer department was presented to…
Deux délégués algériens représentant la police algérienne et la défense civile se sont rendus à Beyrouth, la capitale libanaise, le11 décembre dernier afin d’évaluer l’état des lieux de leur projet pilote réalisé. Une journée entière qui s’inscrit dans le cadre et dans la foulée d’une série d’ateliers d’évaluation à l’intention des pays bénéficiaires du projet…
After four days of debate, the National Assembly has approved the final four chapters of a new Land Traffic Law which aims to improve the safety on Cambodia’s notoriously dangerous roads. The 106 lawmakers gave near unanimous support to the remaining chapters which covered topics including penalties and enforcement. The passage of this law is…
PRESS RELEASE: New Delhi, December 3rd, 2014 81% respondents strongly favor the passage of the Bill 90% believe passing the Bill will be a major accomplishment for Parliament In a poll jointly conducted by SaveLIFE Foundation and Global Road Safety Partnership, with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the general public has expressed strong support for the…
GRSP takes great pride in welcoming two new members who have joined the partnership, Stars Foundation and MAPFRE Foundation (Fundacion MAPFRE). Founded in 2001 by Al-Dabbagh Group and based in London, Stars Foundation invests in organizations and ideas that transform the lives of disadvantaged children and their communities globally. Stars is committed to reaching 20…
The Partnerstwo dla Bezpieczeństwa Drogowego (GRSP Poland) hosted the 5th Gala Road Safety Awards Ceremony in Warsaw, Poland on 28 November, 2014. More than 170 road safety stakeholders including representatives from governmental bodies, private enterprise, schools, NGOs, churches, media, academia and multi-lateral and international organizations, attended the prestigious 5th Gala Road Safety Annual Awards Ceremony….
The sub-regional workshops ‘Road safety fundamentals and interventions’ organized in the framework of the TRACECA Road Safety II project, funded by the European Union, were held in Chisinau, Tbilisi and Almaty between October 22nd and November 5th 2014. Led by the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST)…
On 18 November, Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital Foundation held a public forum to discuss the content of a draft amendment to Kenya’s Traffic Bill. The foundation joins several civil society organizations, including Usalama Watch Initiative, Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, and Handicap International, in advocating for legislative changes with funding through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Road Safety Grants Programme….
