The United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) has announced that it is holding its second Global Road Safety Week during the week 6-12 May, 2013, this year with a particular focus on Pedestrian Safety. Pedestrians constitute a major group at risk of death, injury and disability on the road. The Week will contribute to: …
On November 14 and 15, an important road safety event was held in the Jordanian capital of Amman. A regional workshop on the Implementation of the Action Plan for the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety in the ESCWA region. This two day, high level workshop was organised by the Economic and Social…
In a most innovative single initiative, the Cambodian Red Cross Siem Reap branch simultaneously engaged young adults with the road safety message, assisted traffic police and helped educate traffic offenders. At a recent workshop organised by the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) Siem Reap branch, 60 CRC young adult volunteeers were trained on the risk factors…
The Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards give global recognition to individuals and organizations for achievements and innovations which improve road safety. At a London ceremony on December 11, 2012, GRSP South Africa member organization, South Africans Against Drunk Driving (SADD), was presented this most prestigious award in the category of ‘Road Users’ for their…
“Catch the bus” is actually the title of a road safety campaign in Dubai, aired on E-Junior, the UAE childrens’ channel on eLife, a service for Etisalat Telecom. The project was developed in cooperation with Total Marketing Middle East and Dubai Police, hwever its most important partners were the children themselves. By answering quizzes and…
Traffic law enforcement in Mexico is not easy. Everyday traffic police face a number of safety challenges at alcohol checkpoints, then they have to manage a cumbersome process for dealing with those who are caught driving over the legal alcohol limit. Under the Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded IMESEVI6, the local name for the RS10 programme in Mexico,…
Data, data, data! That was the message sent at the second GRSP MENA workshop held in Brussels on November 5 and 6. Entitled ‘Road Safety Data Systems’, the event brought together leading road safety practitioners and decision makers from the Southern Mediterranean Region, representing eight partner countries of the European Union funded project, ‘Euromed Transport:…
Community attitudes to drink driving in Hyderabad (Andrah Pradesh, India) have been changing since the Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded RS10 programme began enhancing the enforcement capacity of traffic police. Since November 2011, almost 6000 drivers in Hyderabad have been charged with drink driving – enough to cause concern in any court and for any government. The driving…
On September 27 and 28, St. Petersburg hosted the IV International Congress of ‘Road Safety for the Safety of Life: Children on the Road’, organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member States and the Council of Federation. The congress was attended by about 1200 people representing the authorities of Russia and CIS countries,…
One of the key elements of the Global Road Safety Partnership’s strategy is creating and supporting sustainable road safety partnerships between business, government and civil society. The story of Sakhalin, Russia’s largest island, is an outstanding example of this strategy at work. March 2005: In response to a dramatic growth in the number of road…
Bloomberg Philanthropies is supporting road safety activities in 10 countries (Brazil, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Kenya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam) over a 5-year period (2010-2014). RS10 – as the project is known – finds six partners working collaboratively at the international, national and city levels, each with specialised tasks and shared tasks. The partners…
Motorisation is expanding at an alarming rate in Cambodia. Regrettably, so too is road crash death and injury. Road fatalities have increased by 50% since 2005, and road crashes are now the leading cause of injury and death in the country. In a bold move to combat these sharp increases, the Cambodian National Road Safety…
A modern corporation can be seen as a miniature of the world in which we live. Rules and regulations must work hand-in-hand with moral principles to effectively and responsibly organise and govern. With the road safety message gaining greater social awareness, it is more and more often being seen within the Codes of Conduct of…
Government commitment is crucial for enabling action towards the reduction of road crash death and injury. The Ukrainian Road Safety Association, working in cooperation with the Global Road Safety Partnership, recognizes the importance of visible government leadership in road safety. At the beginning of summer this year, the Ukrainian Road Safety Association (URSA), submitted a…
Since 2007, Vietnam has made impressive gains in increasing helmet wearing rates among motorcyclists – a critical achievement considering that 95% of the registered vehicle fleet is composed of motorcycles. This success in behaviour change is largely due to strong legislation and the systematic enforcement of helmet wearing, supported by social marketing campaigns and other…
