A meeting was held in Paris in September between the man behind the GRSP administered Bloomberg Philanthropies Road Safety Grants Programme, New York Mayor Mr Michael Bloomberg, and the Grants Programme team. The meeting was conducted to consider and assess the 31 qualifying applications received during the recently closed round four call for proposals. Proposals…
Each year in China, 20 million new drivers take to the roads adding to the 240 million vehicles currently registered in the country – this is a staggering figure which highlights the importance of managing mobility and motorization in a rapidly growing economy. This formed the central topic at the recent China Road Safety Forum…
After months of hard work, September saw the launch of the road safety project ‘The Design and Establishment of a Road Safety Management System for Sfax Governorate Regional Transport Company (SORETRAS)’, within the framework of the EU MENA programme. The ambitious but achievable project aims to reduce by 50% the number of road crash victims…
Since the GRSP first began working in Vietnam back in 2003, much progress has been made on the culture and legislation around helmet wearing, however there is still much to do, particularly on the issue of helmet standards. Whilst helmet wearing rates have improved, there is little or no control over the quality of the…
Every year on the second Saturday of September, events are held in over 100 countries to celebrate and promote World First Aid Day. This year the day was held around the theme ‘First Aid and Road Safety’. As part of global actions, the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) in collaboration with the International Federation of Red…
In another example of private sector engagement in road safety, a strategic partnership agreement has been signed between the Hungarian Tyre Association (HTA) and the GRSP Hungary. One objective of the cooperation between the two organizations is to engage in joint programmes with the aim of broadening the knowledge of drivers with a focus on…
On August 2, Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRCS) held a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, in collaboration with the Road Safety Platform (RSP) and the World Health Organization. The press conference was TRC’s first activity under their road safety advocacy project. TRCS will be contributing to an ongoing advocacy campaign focused on strengthening seat-belt laws…
The EU MENA programme is a one million Euros funded project spanning three years in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia. It aims to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries in the beneficiary countries through: capacity building activities for key staff in the region; coordinated multi-sector and multi-disciplinary cooperation on road safety…
World First Aid Day 2013 will take place on Saturday 14th September, the theme for this year is First Aid and Road Safety. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies introduced World First Aid Day (WFAD) in the year 2000, and each year, more than 100 Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies…
WHO launches manual aimed at strengthening road safety legislation in support of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. Released this month by the World Health Organization (WHO), ‘Strengthening road safety legislation: a practice resource manual for countries’ describes methods and provides resources that practitioners and decision-makers can use for enacting new laws or…
Drivers across the European Union will face sanctions for breaking traffic laws even when driving in a foreign country. “Traffic laws apply to all drivers, regardless of the country where their vehicle is registered,” said Antonio Avenoso, European Traffic Safety Council (ETSC) Executive Director. The message is simple: as a driver, you would not break…
July saw the Jalisco State Legislature pass the new Law of Mobility which seeks to introduce a number of reforms and initiatives designed to improve, and sustain, mobility in the Mexican state. The reforms include greater access to transport for the disabled, an increase in the percentage of revenue generated through traffic fines being directed…
In our April newsletter we followed up on the progress being made by local Indian NGO and GRSP grantee, ArriveSAFE in their work advocating to remove illegal alcohol stalls along national highways in the Punjab. At the time we reported that the National Highway Authority of India had confirmed to the Court that the liquor…
Following the high profile launch of the ‘Safe to School – Safe to Home’ project in Ha Nam province in June, GRSP conducted the first workshop for stakeholders in July. The workshop combined technical sessions with practical excercises aimed at further developing the capacity of those who will be responsible for the local implementation of…
If you are injured in a road crash in India, don’t expect a bystander to help – that’s the frightening reality a new survey has revealed. SaveLIFE Foundation, a grantee of GRSP’s Road Safety Grants Programme funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, has just released the findings of a first-ever, seven city survey into the major impediments…
