“In this process, you start believing in results. This is what is motivating: seeing that it is possible. It is not just another project. It is a project with our face, being built by us and which embodies us.” – Road safety Champion Marta Maria Malheiros Alves, epidemological surveillance manager of the city’s Health Secretariat and…
How a unique partnership approach developed in Brazil is being expanded nationally and internationally with engagement of the private-sector, government and a leading, global philanthropic organization. In Brazil’s western state of Mato Grosso do Sul, the capital city of Campo Grande is at the frontier of Brazil’s road-safety revolution. Only 400 kilometers from the border…
“The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) is the publication that health agencies, universities, government agencies and foundations go to when they want to publish important public health research”, states the American Public Health Association. A journal with current and in-depth research on public health, the June 2012 issue includes a focus on the health…
“It’s better to crash into a nap, than to nap into a crash,” is a famous saying. Yet unfortunately, it does not always happen this way. Every day, thousands of people lose their lives on the roads. While many of the victims are members of our community, there are also a large number of victims…
Renault hosts 2012 Global Road Safety Partnership Annual Meeting in Spa, Belgium By working together, automakers, governments and humanitarian groups are preventing deaths and injuries caused by road crashes around the world. Examples of where this is being done are among the highlights of the 2012 Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) Annual Meeting, which is…
“Appearances are deceptive”, points out the Mayor of Stuttgart, Dr. Wolfgang Schuster. Although our roads and vehicles are much safer today than 100 years ago, there is still much more work to be done, he explains. Yet by bringing key road safety stakeholders together – including the Global Road Safety Partnership and Michelin – at…
On April 16, 2012, the global organization, Youth for Road Safety (YOURS), launched its first-ever road safety toolkit. Targeting young people all over the world, the safety kit aims to introduce road safety in a concise, yet clear and appealing way. In order to know more about that kit, we interviewed its author Nellie Ghusayni,…
By Kwan Pankumhang Achieving a helmet-wearing rate of 100 per cent is achievable as we learn from road safety stakeholders in Thailand. In January, the main organization responsible for road safety, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), under Ministry of Interior, organised an event titled, “Commemorating the Year of 100 per cent Safety…
In the near future, Slovenia will have to deal with the challenge of creating a coordinated and stable road safety system at the national, regional and local levels. Effective collaboration among road safety stakeholders is critical in order to meet this challenge. From the 19-20 March, Steve Proctor from TMS Consultancy and Kathleen Elsig from…
Closing a gap in road laws that currently exclude the requirement for passengers – particularly children – to wear a motorcycle helmet are now being addressed in Cambodia thanks to the leadership of the Global Road Safety Partnership and the support they have provided to the Cambodia Red Cross. In April, the National Road Safety…
Thanks to Renault, a valuable partner of the Global Road Safety Partnership, the first Masters programme of its kind in Road Safety Management now exists in the Arab world. Through its corporate foundation, the leading automotive French group has partnered with the prestigious Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Lebanon to establish a Multidisciplinary Chair for…
People attending the Global Road Safety Partnership Annual Meeting in Spa, Belgium will see and hear first-hand how lives can be saved when the public, private and civil-society sectors work together to reduce road-crash death and injury. Being held from 1-2 June during Renault’s 2012 World Series auto event, the GRSP annual meeting is being hosted…
The Global Road Safety Partnership for the Middle East and North Africa (GRSP MENA), has the pleasure to announce its first workshop within the framework of the EU-MENA support programme. The event will be held in Brussels on the 22nd and 23rd of May, 2012. Under the theme of “Road Safety Management”, this workshop will…
In a ceremony held in Brussels on 25 April, Royal Dutch Shell, one the largest worldwide oil companies and an active partner of the Global Road Safety Partnership, received the PRAISE Annual Award for Road Safety in the category of large companies. “Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees” (PRAISE) is a…
One year in to the Decade of Action for Road Safety, the 66th UN General Assembly in New York ratified its latest resolution on global road safety on April 19, reaffirming its commitment to addressing the man-made humanitarian road crash crisis. The resolution calls upon states to carry out road safety activities in accordance with…
