Under the Advocacy & Grants Programme, funded through the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety, GRSP is partnering with the Turkish Red Crescent Society in an ongoing campaign to address gaps in Turkish seat-belt legislation. Currently, a number of exemptions exist in the legislation which lead to road crash fatalities and more severe road crash…
Selections made from a field of 20 strong applicant cities Commitment Aims to Reduce Road Traffic Fatalities and Injuries in Low- and Middle-Income Cities and Countries New York – February 12, 2015 – Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the winning cities and countries selected to participate in a new phase of the foundation’s Global Road Safety…
The end of 2014 saw the end of the three-year EU funded EuroMed Road Safety project which was managed by the GRSP. The 1 million Euros project was designed to assist, and build capacity within, eight southern Mediterranean countries to improve road safety. An extended series of regional and in-country workshops were conducted in which…
The Safe to School – Safe to Home programme, which was developed through the Global Road Safety Initiative, was first launched in Ha Nam province, Vietnam, in August 2013. Since that time the programme has been refined and replicated in a number of countries in the region and beyond. The lead example of the project…
We have reported a number of times on the work of SaveLIFE Foundation, a grantee of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme, in their campaign for the introduction of a Good Samaritan law in India. Herein we are pleased to bring you the latest progress in this important work. SaveLIFE Foundation successfully aligned with…
It is with a great sense of pride that we announce Professor Barry Watson has accepted the appointment as new Chief Executive Officer of GRSP. Barry is the current Director of Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety (CARRS-Q) in Brisbane, Australia. He has over 30 years’ experience in road safety…
On January 13 in Hanoi, Vietnam, the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), Vietnam’s governmental authority on road safety, officially launched its National Child Helmet Action Plan to promote child helmet use across the country. The National Child Helmet Action Plan is coordinated by the NTSC and its department members, including the ministries of Education and…
Follow up story to article published December 8 In continued reporting on efforts to assist with the passage of the new Land Traffic Law which aims to improve the safety on Cambodia’s notoriously dangerous roads, following the December approval of the final chapters of the law by the National Assembly, two further important and final…
Media Release from Global Road Safety Partnership South Africa (GRSP ZA) While the recently released road traffic crash statistics for the 2014-2015 festive season show a marginal decline from the corresponding figures of the 2013-2014 season, they still make for grim reading. According to the figures released by Minister Dipuo Peters on 9 January 2015,…
A consortium of partners including the Global Road Safety Partnership, World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins International School of Public Health, World Bank Global Road Safety Facility, Association of Safe International Road Travel and the World Resources Institute (EMBARQ) received funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies to collaborate in a five-year, 125-million-USD programme to reduce death and serious…
The UN Road Safety Collaboration is pleased to announce the global campaign for the Third UN Global Road Safety Week, 4-10 May 2015, on the theme children and road safety: #SaveKidsLives. The campaign seeks to highlight the plight of children on the world’s roads, generate action to better ensure their safety and promote the inclusion…
Back in May 2012, the first EuroMed Road Safety Regional Workshop was conducted in Brussels, Belgium. During December 2014, the project partners again convened in the Belgian capital for the final workshop to conclude the 3 year EU funded programme managed by the Global Road Safety Partnership. The delegates from the beneficiary countries met with…
Française Continuing the series of country workshops in the EuroMed Road Safety project, on December 11, two delegates representing Algerian police and civil defence travelled to Beirut for a full day workshop to review the progress of their national pilot project. The internal review tool developed in cooperation with IFRC PMer department was presented to…
Deux délégués algériens représentant la police algérienne et la défense civile se sont rendus à Beyrouth, la capitale libanaise, le11 décembre dernier afin d’évaluer l’état des lieux de leur projet pilote réalisé. Une journée entière qui s’inscrit dans le cadre et dans la foulée d’une série d’ateliers d’évaluation à l’intention des pays bénéficiaires du projet…
After four days of debate, the National Assembly has approved the final four chapters of a new Land Traffic Law which aims to improve the safety on Cambodia’s notoriously dangerous roads. The 106 lawmakers gave near unanimous support to the remaining chapters which covered topics including penalties and enforcement. The passage of this law is…
