Saving lives and mobility equity is at the heart of the partnership between AIP Foundation, a road safety nonprofit, and Thai Bridgestone Co. Ltd., with support from local partners. Under the ‘Bridgestone Global Road Safety Project’ for youth, they aim to educate, empower, improve and sustain road safety starting in schools – with youth ambassadors to…
This year, Mexico has been selected as one of the six acceleration countries in which the VIA child road safety programme will be implemented, alongside Brazil, India, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. The VIA acceleration programme was launched by the corporate foundations of Michelin and TotalEnergies, in partnership with the GRSP, in late 2021 to…
Throughout the years, the VIA Global Road Safety Education Programme has had a remarkable journey across Africa. To this day, the project has been able to engage a variety of schools, professional implementing partners and road safety actors in multiple African countries. In 2022, the programme was successfully implemented in Mali by the VIA…
We are excited to bring to you this month’s Global Road Policing Network (GRPN) Newsletter! As you will soon find out, the objectives of this quarterly newsletter are to bring together people within the road policing space and to spread useful information regarding road safety around the world. The GRPN team hopes you find the material engaging and…
Welcome to our latest edition of ‘VIA Community’, a biannual newsletter on VIA, an innovative global road safety education programme developed with the support of the Michelin Corporate Foundation and TotalEnergies Foundation. By sharing successes and challenges, this newsletter will show how the community of VIA partners is contributing to the effort of reducing road…
The General Law of Mobility and Road Safety has been passed by the Mexican Senate, a gargantuan milestone for road safety in the Latin American nation, as well as for the Safe Mobility Coalition (Coalición Movilidad Segura); a cluster of 61 non-governmental organizations that have actively advocated for the bill since 2014. The bill, which…
The GRSP Signpost is our quarterly newsletter designed to share with you the important work that GRSP and other road safety actors are doing all around the globe. By sharing successes and challenges, we hope to encourage others to join the effort to reduce the unacceptable burden of road crash death and injury being placed…
The GRSP’s Road Map 2016-2020 was coming to an end and work had begun to develop the next strategic plan for the period from 2021 to 2025. The process of consulting our members on important future focus areas and holding workshops with GRSP staff to gather input on the future direction of the GRSP was…
The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) was pleased to support a recent webinar focusing on road safety in Africa and Middle East. “Overcoming Safe Driving Challenges in Africa and Middle East” was hosted by member eDriving, a Solera company, in conjunction with the AMENA Network and GRSP, to put the road safety challenges in Africa…
We are excited to bring to you the first edition of our Global Road Policing Network (GRPN) Newsletter! As you will soon find out, the objectives of this quarterly newsletter are to bring together people within the road policing space and to spread useful information regarding road safety around the world. The GRPN team hopes…
The GRSP Signpost is our quarterly newsletter designed to share with you the important work that GRSP and other road safety actors are doing all around the globe. By sharing successes and challenges, we hope to encourage others to join the effort to reduce the unacceptable burden of road crash death and injury being placed…
GRSP is proud to acknowledge the enormous contribution that our former Chair and current Executive Committee member, Andrew Bradley, has made to road safety which has been acknowledged by his recent Outstanding Contribution Award from the European Captive Review 2021. See the Award announcement here.
For more than a decade, GRSP has proudly partnered with Bloomberg Philanthropies to improve global road safety. Since 2007, Bloomberg Philanthropies has committed US$259 million to support road safety interventions in many low- and middle-income countries and cities, noting that ‘cities and countries, particularly low- and middle-income countries where the vast majority of traffic…
Welcome to our latest edition of ‘VIA Community’, a biannual newsletter on VIA, an innovative global road safety education programme developed with the support of the Michelin Corporate Foundation and TotalEnergies Foundation. By sharing successes and challenges, this newsletter will show how the community of VIA partners is contributing to the effort of reducing road…
Road traffic crashes have remained a major cause of death globally. Every day, over 3500 people die on the roads. This figure amounts to over 1.3 million preventable deaths and an estimated 50 million injuries each year – making it the leading killer of children and young people aged 5 to 29 worldwide. It is…
