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…
What motivates Omanis to attend a seminar in Thailand that addresses road safety in Asia? The Global Road Safety Partnership had the privilege to discover the answer first-hand during the annual seminar. “In Oman, we have many more road crash and injury problems with vehicles, and many less with motorcycles and bicycles. The problem in…
Following success in Malaysia, Viet Nam and New Zealand, this year it was the Philippines’ turn to win the 4th Intenrational Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) Asia Pacific Award for 2011, granted on 8 March during the Asia Seminar. “We are surprised that iRAP had chosen the Philippines, and we are also very thankful”, said Bert Suansing,…
By Deepa Pasupathy After a devastating tragedy that left the country inundated in water, emergency response officials in Thailand are facing a harsh reality that their response in terms of pre-hospital care is not yet up to par. The disastrous flash floods that occurred at the end of 2011 submerged over four hundred hospitals, crippling…
It happens every day: Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers saving the lives of people who fall victim to road crashes. Khin Khin Shein, who heads the First Aid and Safety Services Division for the Myanmar Red Cross Society tells of a recent first-hand experience when a delegation from Japan visited a rural Myanmar township…
“In the past 10 years, the number of registered vehicles have increased enormously in Myanmar”, explained Professor Thit Lwin, Head of Orthopedic Surgery at Yangon General Hospital and Project Manager for the Injury Prevention project at the Ministry of Health.“Road safety is a surging problem in our country, and the second highest cause of death…
The past few years, the Global Road Safety Partnership has worked closely with the European Transport Safety Counctil (ETSC) to run the annual PRAISE seminar. The ETSC project, Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees (PRAISE), aims to increase road safety in the work context. ETSC’s project aims to “praise” best practices in…
For many of people today, social media can be intimidating or simply uninteresting. Yet whether or not you use it, one thing is certain – social media is having a major impact around the world today in terms of how we communicate and interact. As you read these words, people may be talking about your…
The Global Road Safety Partnership today launched the process of finding a new Chief Executive for the organization after the current CEO, Andrew Pearce, decided not to renew his contract for a further term. Interested candidates were invited to apply for this exciting post by filling an online application. “After four years of an impressive…
Almost one year in, seminar addresses the challenge ahead We’ve come a long way — but there’s a long road ahead. That could be one way of summing up the sentiments of the 230 road-safety experts, practitioners, advocates and senior government officials who gathered at the launch of the fifth annual GRSP Asia Road Safety…
Almost one year into the global Decade of Action for Road Safety, Asian countries are already taking significant steps toward their goals of reducing road-crash related deaths and injuries. But much more needs to be done if countries are to meet the ambitious goals set as part of the Decade of Action — particularly as the…
In the words of French writer, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “ a goal without a plan is just a wish.” But this is not a phrase that needs to be explained to the Global Road Safety Partnership team supporting the project, Road Safety in 10 Countries (RS-10), funded with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies. For the Partnership, setting…
