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…
Brussels – Press release from the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) Transport safety campaigners are calling on the European Union to accelerate progress on reducing the number of people killed in cars every year in the EU, as new research shows 12,345 car occupants were fatally injured in 2012. The report into trends in car…
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has been the host organization for GRSP since 1999, and for the GRSP MENA office since 2008. With road safety becoming an increasingly important topic to Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies, the team in the GRSP MENA office took the opportunity this month…
On 10 April in Phu Ly City, the GRSP Vietnam team together with lead members from the Ha Nam Provincial Traffic Safety Committee (PTSC) conducted an inter-provincial training workshop on the ‘Safe to School – Safe to Home’ programme methodology. ‘Safe to School – Safe to Home’ has been developed by GRSP as a comprehensive,…
On the fifth of May in Melbourne, Australia, HRH Prince Michael of Kent will launch a new Australian Government road safety initiative known as the National Road Safety Partnership Programme (NRSPP). The programme recognizes that promoting road safety is everyone’s responsibility and that the business sector has the ability and financial incentive to help reduce…
We are excited to inform the road safety community that we have confirmed dates for the 2014 GRSP AFRICA ROAD SAFETY SEMINAR: Dates: 12-13 August, 2014 Venue: Cape Town, South Africa Theme: ‘Safer Cities for Children’ This important event on the African road safety calendar will once again attract strong interest from key stakeholders including…
The team at SaveLIFE Foundation (India), one of the grantees of the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Road Safety Grants Programme, has welcomed further success within the framework of their road safety advocacy campaign. This week, on the back of exhaustive efforts to have road safety included as an election issue, the Indian National Congress party released…
With an understanding of the scope of the road safety issue, particularly in emerging markets, coupled with the fact that travel for work purposes is becoming more and more common, it comes as little surprise that road safety for employees working abroad is an increasingly important occupational health and safety issue. On this very subject,…
European Commission Press Release: Brussels, 31 March 2014 In line with the Decade of Action targets, 2013 is the second year in a row that saw a decrease in the number of people killed on Europe’s roads. According to preliminary figures, the number of road fatalities has decreased by 8% compared to 2012, following the…
During the week of 24 through 28 March as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme, GRSP conducted a ‘Train the Trainer’ workshop for 30 road officers from Guadalajara and Leon, the two intervention sites for the programme in Mexico. The workshops form a part of the programme’s efforts at creating long-term sustainability…
Renault Foundation this month celebrated the first graduates of the Road Safety Management Masters, a programme launched by the Renault Foundation in March 2012. The programme, the first Master of its kind, offers an 18-month, trilingual, multidisciplinary programme covering the following fields: vehicle safety, road safety, law enforcement and legislative framework, road users’ behaviour, post-crash…
March was a busy month in Vietnam for the ‘Safe to School – Safe to Home’ programme, as the lead country implementation entered its second phase: replication and expansion. To start the month, the GRSP Vietnam team held a ‘Train the Trainer’ workshop for 40 teachers from the new schools taking up the programme to…
