The Global Road Safety Forum (GRSF) helps raise awareness and brings people together to address the global road safety crisis in developing and transitioning countries. includes advocacy, facilitating collaboration, especially with major institutional bodies, and organizing inclusive stakeholders’ forums regionally and globally.

 

GlobalRoadSafety.org Launched

We are pleased to announce that globalroadsafety.org is now available in Spanish. Please note the toggle buttons in the top right of all pages on this site.

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President Obama
2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act Opportunity to improve road safety
in U.S.

The 2009 Recovery Act directed at investment in US roads and highways will incorporate safety features into planned projects and encourage states and municipalities to implement existing Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSP). In the most recent US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration newsletter, the FHWA highlighted President Obama's remarks and the road safety focus of the Recovery Act.
[Read more about the Recovery Act's road safety focus and current FHWA work in road safety]

Make Roads Safe

COMMISSION FOR GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY RELEASES NEW REPORT
'MAKE ROAD SAFE
a DECADE OF ACTION FOR ROAD SAFETY'

On May 5th, the Commission for Global Road Safety launched their new report "Make Roads Safe - A Decade of Action for Road Safety".  The report outlines the Commission's recommendations.  The Commission is urging UN member governments that will attend the global ministerial in Moscow later this year to support a "decade of action on road safety" 2010 - 2020.  [Read the report]

Every 3 minutes a child is killed on the world's roads. Please sign the petition.

CDC releases Childhood Injury Report

The CDC released the Childhood Injury Report: Patterns of Unintentional Injury Among 0-19 Year Olds in the United States to coincide with the release of the World Report on Child Injury Prevention. Dr. Ann Dellinger coauthor of the report, serves as the data expert on the Educar project. [Read the report]

Dr. Mark Rosenberg on National Public Radio

To mark the December 10th release of the World Report on Child Injury Prevention and the CDC  Childhood Injury Report, Dr. Mark Rosenberg, Director of the Global Road Safety Forum, spoke to  National Public Radio's Brenda Wilson on the toll the road traffic epidemic takes on children in the developing world and why Sweden's roads are the safest in the world. [Listen]

World Bank Road Safety Facility

Desmond Tutu

"Road deaths represent a huge burden on our health systems and an obstacle to our efforts to overcome poverty. I call on the world community to work together to make our roads safe". - Archbishop Desmond Tutu

 

First High Level Ibero-American Road Safety Forum for  Latin America and the Caribbean (EISEVI)

Participants Draft Guidelines for Governmental Action on Road Safety

The First High-Level Ibero-American Road Safety Forum forLatin America and the Caribbean (EISEVI) was held in Madrid, on February 23-24, 2009. A series of conclusions were drawn from the Forum, the Madrid Principles, outlining guidelines for governmental action to reduce future road traffic fatalities and injuries.

Organizers of the Forum, DGT, the MAPFRE Foundation, the World Bank and the FIA Foundation have agreed to accept the invitation of Jose A. Cordova Villalobos, the Secretary of Health of Mexico, and Enrique  V. Igelsias, the Ibero-American Secretary General, to hold the second EISEV forum in Mexico in 2011. 
For more information on the Forum, the presenters and interviews with key speakers, please visit the EISEVI website►

Jamaican Delegation

Jamaican Delegation
 

 

EDU-CAR Uruguay Child Road Safety Initiative

PROJECT UPDATE

EDU-CAR's program staff has been actively engaged in Uruguay's 2009 Presidential election cycte advocating for increased child passenger safety measures.  EDU-CAR, coordinated by the Gonzalo Rodriguez Memorial Foundation, is committed to placing road safety on Uruguay's national agenda. In addition to meeting with the Presidential candidates, EDU-CAR has met with the Ministries of the Interior, Public Health, and Economy and Finance.

EDU-CAR has been conducting field studies in child passenger safety for both private vehicles and school buses.  As a result of EDU-CAR's work in school transportation safety, Nani Rodriguez, head of the Gonzalo Rodriguez Memorial Foundation was asked to meet with the Transport, Communications and Public Works Committee in the Chamber of Deputies, Uruguay's national legislative body.  Speaking of behalf of the foundation and EDU-CAR, Ms. Rodriguez provided key information on school transportation that is expected to be included in the 2009 revised National Road Safety Act No. 18191.

In February at the Road Safety Forum for Ibero-America and the Caribbean, EDU-CAR presented the the program's work with child passenger safety restraints. Replication projects are now under consideration in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica and Mexico. 

Visit the EDUCAR site ►

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moscow

First Global Ministerial Conference
on Road Safety

November 19-20, 2009

The government of the Russian Federation will host the First Global Ministerial Conference on road safety on November 19-20, 2009.  The conference will be held at the International Trade Centre in Moscow.  Organizers hope to convene Ministers of Transport, Health, Foreign Affairs and Education along with representatives from UN agencies, nongovernmental organizations and the private sector. The objectives outlined for the conference include:

  • Raise awareness of the global impact of road traffic injuries and fatalities and the disproportionate cost to low and middle income countries
  • Review progress on implementation of the World report on road traffic injury prevention and the UN General Assembly resolutions
  • Provide a high-level global multisectoral policy platform to share information and good practices on road safety
  • Propose a series of next steps to include a discussion on resource requirements for implementation of recommended action

For additional information on the conference, please visit the UN Road Safety Collaboration website ►

Read the resolution that called for this conference, speakers' statements and press coverage of the March 31, 2008 UN General Assembly session ►
 

Global Status Report

World Health Organization
Releases
Global Status Report on Road Safety

On June 15th, the World Health Organization Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability released the Global Status Report on Road Safety.  The report presents findings from a survey of 178 countries. The survey assessed the extent to which countries had adopted and implemented the recommendations of the 2004 World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention. 

The full report is available on the WHO website ►