Ramadan is a special month for Muslims around the world during which sunset each day marks the observance of Iftar. Iftar is the evening meal, when traditionally, families and communities come together to break their daily fasting ritual. In recent years, Ramadan, per the Islamic calendar, has been occurring in the northern summer which sees…
Through many of the sustainable projects with which GRSP has been involved and in which local partnerships are built, or through invitation by lead agencies, GRSP has established a number (11) of locally funded (through local membership), locally governed in-country GRSP organizations. These organizations operate independently for locally funded projects with a head office advisor,…
SaveLIFE Foundation, a grantee of the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Road Safety Grants Programme, has been declared the best non-profit organization in India (2013-14) at the Indian NGO Awards. The India NGO Awards is a unique, national competition that aims to celebrate and reward leading non-governmental and non-profit organizations. The awards were instituted in 2006 to…
We reported last month on a series of three workshops held as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Global Road Safety Programme in Brazil for municipal traffic police, road police and agents of the Federal Highway Police. Wasting no time, this month saw the skills learned during the workshop taken to the streets for the…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) and Global New Car Assessment Programme (GNCAP) partnered to organize Asia Pacific Road Safety 2014 held over two weeks from 23 June to 4 July 2014 in Manila, Philippines. This comprehensive seminar, workshop and training programme comprised four key events,…
In Kenya, road traffic crashes are the third leading cause of death after Malaria and HIV/AIDS. Since September 2013, to contribute to the reduction of road injury and death on Kenyan roads, the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and Handicap International (HI), with funding through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme, are working to…
Whilst Brazil, and much of the world, is focussed on the drama being played out in the 2014 Football World Cup, even this, the world’s largest single sporting event, will not get in the way of continued enforcement training in Brazil. Through the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Global Road Safety Programme, GRSP in June, together with…
As part of the activities of the EuroMed Road Safety Programme and the road safety pilot project ‘We Got Together So That No Road Separates You’ launched on the 16th of May 2014 in Beirut, 40 Internal Security Forces officers were trained on delivering first aid to crash victims. This capacity building event, held on…
The Global Road Safety Partnership has just published its latest annual report. The publication is a concise report on the work of GRSP during the year 2013. We look at the road safety situation and the need for action as was defined by the release of the WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety 2013….
As part of a global ‘Week of Action’ for the UN’s post-2015 public vote on future priorities, the Road Safety Fund co-organised a high level Forum to call for urgent action to save lives around the world. The Decade of Action Policy and Donor Forum, held in Melbourne, Australia, called for road safety to be…
The media has an important role to play in the effective communication of road safety messages. Just the language used to report on a fatality can drastically alter the way the news is received by the public. To illustrate, a newspaper headline reporting on a triple fatality on the national highway could simply read: ‘Three…
Having launched the Safe to School – Safe to Home programme in Ningbo City, China on November 18, 2013 with excellent attendance from stakeholders and the media, work in 2014 has been progressing well. A safety assessment of the road and traffic environment around the 10 pilot schools is underway, with reports to be finalized…
Road safety leader and Global Road Safety Partnership member Nestlé held its own Road Safety Week at its global headquarters in Switzerland to celebrate the international day of ‘Safety & Health at work’ during the week commencing 28 April 2014. According to Michel Siegenthaler from Nestlé Group Risk Services, and a member of the organising…
Third UN Global Road Safety Week, 4 – 10 May 2015: ‘Children and road safety’ On 10 April 2014 a new UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution – “Improving global road safety” – requested WHO and the UN regional commissions to facilitate organization of the Third UN Global Road Safety Week in 2015. WHO and the…
During a meeting of Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme partners in Leon, Mexico, the head of the road police expressed concern regarding the robust enforcement of road safety policies for fear of a public backlash. He specifically requested the partners engage in public awareness raising and other activities to raise public understanding and support…
