In Kenya, road traffic crashes are the third leading cause of death after Malaria and HIV/AIDS. Since September 2013, to contribute to the reduction of road injury and death on Kenyan roads, the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and Handicap International (HI), with funding through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme, are working to…
Whilst Brazil, and much of the world, is focussed on the drama being played out in the 2014 Football World Cup, even this, the world’s largest single sporting event, will not get in the way of continued enforcement training in Brazil. Through the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Global Road Safety Programme, GRSP in June, together with…
As part of the activities of the EuroMed Road Safety Programme and the road safety pilot project ‘We Got Together So That No Road Separates You’ launched on the 16th of May 2014 in Beirut, 40 Internal Security Forces officers were trained on delivering first aid to crash victims. This capacity building event, held on…
The Global Road Safety Partnership has just published its latest annual report. The publication is a concise report on the work of GRSP during the year 2013. We look at the road safety situation and the need for action as was defined by the release of the WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety 2013….
As part of a global ‘Week of Action’ for the UN’s post-2015 public vote on future priorities, the Road Safety Fund co-organised a high level Forum to call for urgent action to save lives around the world. The Decade of Action Policy and Donor Forum, held in Melbourne, Australia, called for road safety to be…
The media has an important role to play in the effective communication of road safety messages. Just the language used to report on a fatality can drastically alter the way the news is received by the public. To illustrate, a newspaper headline reporting on a triple fatality on the national highway could simply read: ‘Three…
Having launched the Safe to School – Safe to Home programme in Ningbo City, China on November 18, 2013 with excellent attendance from stakeholders and the media, work in 2014 has been progressing well. A safety assessment of the road and traffic environment around the 10 pilot schools is underway, with reports to be finalized…
Road safety leader and Global Road Safety Partnership member Nestlé held its own Road Safety Week at its global headquarters in Switzerland to celebrate the international day of ‘Safety & Health at work’ during the week commencing 28 April 2014. According to Michel Siegenthaler from Nestlé Group Risk Services, and a member of the organising…
Third UN Global Road Safety Week, 4 – 10 May 2015: ‘Children and road safety’ On 10 April 2014 a new UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution – “Improving global road safety” – requested WHO and the UN regional commissions to facilitate organization of the Third UN Global Road Safety Week in 2015. WHO and the…
During a meeting of Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme partners in Leon, Mexico, the head of the road police expressed concern regarding the robust enforcement of road safety policies for fear of a public backlash. He specifically requested the partners engage in public awareness raising and other activities to raise public understanding and support…
GRSP MENA office, as part of the EuroMed Road Safety Prorgamme, proudly announces the launch of the first distinctive, multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary road safety pilot project in Lebanon. In an effort to promote road safety, a campaign under the title of ‘We got together so that no road can separate you’ was launched at the…
On World Red Cross Red Crescent Day (8 May 2014), a new partnership with an initial focus on strengthening cooperation on post-crash care was agreed between the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). FIA President Jean Todt (pictured centre) was hosted by the President…
The call for proposals for Round 5 of the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Road Safety Grants Programme was launched through the GRSP website and digital avenues in early February, with a deadline for submissions of 21 March. In all, 75 grant proposals were received from 9 countries, representing a 41 per cent increase over the previous…
On 10 April in New York, the 68th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted by consensus the Russian Federation sponsored resolution entitled ‘Improving global road safety’. This resolution wanted to ‘reflect the progress achieved by the international community on road safety’ over the past two years, and was based on the…
On a daily basis, Brazil faces great road traffic difficulties across the risk factors, and ahead of an influx of visitors for the FIFA World Cup (starting 12 June) all possible support is welcomed by those working to make the roads safer. To this end, from 14 to 16 April, GRSP through the Bloomberg Philanthropies…
