Our partners
The Global Road Safety advocacy movement is a story of collaboration across the international community that began with the realization that by working together to stop this epidemic we could do much more than any of us could ever do alone. The first joint efforts to promote collaboration were mounted by a small group of experts from the fields of transport, medicine, public health and advocacy and from multilateral, bilateral and nonprofit organizations. This group sought to make the world aware of the coming epidemic that took its greatest toll among the most vulnerable populations of the developing world. It is the story of the elephant and the blind men; a growing concern within many nations and many sectors each seeing only a segment of the problem and trying to mount an effective response to a localized presentation of an immense global epidemic. Today there is a global community of stakeholders sharing their challenges and developing common solutions. Experts from injury prevention, engineering, development finance and transportation research work together to address the many factors contributing to the global death toll. The movement benefits from shared leadership from government, multilateral and bilateral organizations, NGOs, foundations, and the private sector. Many leaders have contributed their complementary skills.
As a program of The Task Force for Child Survival & Development, the Global Road Safety Forum’s promotes collaboration to address large-scale public health issues by creating coalitions, reaching consensus, and leveraging scarce resources. We are proud to partner with all members of the global road safety community and include a listing here of some of the partners we have worked with on a continuing basis.
Association for Safe International Road Travel (ASIRT)
Website: www.asirt.org
Member of Global Road Safety Steering Committee
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
ASIRT is a non-profit, humanitarian organization that promotes road travel safety through education and advocacy. ASIRT provides travelers with road safety information, enabling them to make informed travel choices with annually updated Road Travel Reports (RTR) ASIRT serves as a resource to governments, corporations, travel organizations, guidebooks, study abroad programs, health/travel clinics and non-governmental organizations. ASIRT helps foster the development of new road safety organizations in other countries.
Bidez and Associates, Inc.
Bidez and Associates, Inc, consultants in the field of biomedical engineering, specialize in injury prevention and control with a focus on automotive safety and child passengers. Bidez and Associates is actively engaged in child passenger safety legislation internationally and at national, state and local levels in the U.S.
Bone and Joint Decade
Website: www.boneandjointdecade.org
Member of Global Road Safety Steering Committee
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
The Bone and Joint Decade is an international initiative formed by the medical and patient community to promote musculoskeletal health and musculoskeletal science worldwide in the focused period of 2000-2010. The Decade worked collectively with several international organizations, and assisted H.E. Fuad Al-Hinai, Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations from the Sultanate of Oman, in putting road traffic injury prevention on the United Nations General Assembly agenda in 2004. The Decade is a member of the World Bank Global Road Safety Partnership.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Website: www.cdc.gov/ncipc
In June 1992, CDC established the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). As the lead federal agency for injury prevention, NCIPC works closely with other federal agencies; national, state, and local organizations; state and local health departments; and research institutions. The CDC conducts and supports research on the causes, risk factors, and preventative measures for injuries.
Consejo de Seguridad Vial (COSEVI)
National Road Safety Council of Costa Rica
Website: www.csv.go.cr
Member of the Transitional Commission for Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean
Host of 1st Latin America and Caribbean Road Safety Stakeholders Forum, San Jose, September 2006
Consejo de Seguridad Vial (COSEVI), Costa Rica’s national road safety organization, rallied to improve road user protection for almost 30 years. The organization was re-conceptualized in the mid-1990s, to incorporate the concept of road safety as a highly-complex, social and public health problem. COSEVI, a regional road safety leader, has orchestrated a number of successful large-scale campaigns including cooperative efforts with the Global Road Safety Partnership, Swedish National Road Administration, the FIA Foundation, ASDI, DGT–Spain, and WHO.
Comisión Nacional de Seguridad de Tránsito (CONASET)
National Road Safety Commission of Chile
Website: www.conaset.cl
Member of the Transitional Commission for Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean
Co-Host of the Regional Road Safety Planning Conference at Santiago, Chile January 2006
The National Commission of Road Safety is an interministerial organization created in 1993 by Supreme Decree of the government of Chile to advise the President of the Republic on the social and economic impact of road traffic crashes and to make recommendations to holistically address the problem in Chile.
FIA Foundation
for the Automobile & Society
Website: www.fiafoundation.org
Secretariat of the Commission for Global Road Safety
Member of Global Road Safety Steering Committee
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
Member of the Global Road Safety Partnership Steering Committee
Sponsor of the Transitional Commission for Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean Secretariat, Santiago de Chile
The FIA Foundation promotes and supports regional and global road safety initiatives through research and advocacy efforts with a network of global partners. Since its establishment in 2001, the FIA Foundation, a global leader in road safety works to reinforce road safety capacity, organize regional conferences, and sponsor worldwide road safety campaigns such as Make Roads Safe. The Make Roads Safe report from the Commission for Global Road Safety aims to connect road safety with the mainstream development agenda powered by the Millennium Development Goals, to engage high-level political and financial commitment for road injury prevention in low- and middle-income countries, and to ensure the recommendations of the World Report are implemented.
Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP)
Website: www.grsproadsafety.org
Member of Global Road Safety Steering Committee
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
Established in 1999, the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) brings together business, civil society and government to achieve sustainable reductions in death and injury on the roads in low and middle income countries. GRSP facilitates sustainable partnerships and delivers road safety interventions through increased resources, better coordination, management, greater innovation, and knowledge sharing both globally and locally. GRSP is one of the four principal organizations producing a series of good practice manuals under the auspices of the UN road safety collaboration.
Gonzalo Rodríguez Memorial Foundation (GRMF)
Website: www.gonzalorodriguez.org
Member of the Transitional Commission for Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Gonzalo Rodriguez Memorial Foundation was founded in 2001 by Nani Rodriguez to honor her brother, a renowned Uruguayan race car driver. The Foundation’s focus is making large-scale positive impacts in the lives of the children of Uruguay. Luis Alberto Lacalle, former President of Uruguay, hailed the Foundation for its highly successful program that established school sports programs across the nation. The GRMF has joined road safety advocacy on behalf of child road users and are participating in the Uruguay Child Passenger Safety Initiative.
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Website: www.iadb.org
Member of the Global Road Safety Partnership Steering CommitteeMember of the Transitional Commission for Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), created in 1959, is the main source of multilateral financing for development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Bank supports a variety of road safety-related projects focused on upgrading and rehabilitating highway systems, and its loans and grants for transportation and infrastructure integration increasingly incorporate substantial safety component requirements. The IDB, an early road safety regional leader, organized the Brasília Conference of 1998.
Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE)
Website: www.irte.com
Sponsor of South Asian Road Safety Stakeholders Forum, New Delhi, 2007Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
The Institute of Road Traffic Education formed in 1991 by interdisciplinary stakeholders to make India’s roads safer. IRTE's work focuses on catalyzing the development of road safety infrastructure and fostering a “road safety” culture. In December 2001, IRTE is a research organization investing in tools & systems of Accident Investigation, Traffic Engineering, Road Safety Audit, Enforcement Technology, Driver Training and Road Safety Education.
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Website: www.paho.org
Member of the Transitional Commission for Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency working to improve health and living standards in the countries of the Americas. PAHO, a regional leader in mobilizing road safety efforts, was the first UN Regional Office to hire a regional expert in road safety injury prevention. PAHO, a sponsor of the 2004 and 2005 Brasilia road safety meetings, is responsible for regional data compiling and program analysis.
Permanent Mission of the Sultanate of Oman
Website: www.un.int/oman
Member of Global Road Safety Steering Committee
Sponsor of 1st and 2ndUN Road Safety Stakeholders Forums, New York, 2004 & Geneva, 2007
His Excellency Fuad Mubarak Al-Hinai, the Permanent Representative of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations, spearheaded the multi-national mobilization of political will to address issues of road safety. HE Al-Hinai was instrumental in bringing global road safety before the UN General Assembly.
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Website: www.sida.se
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
Member of the Global Road Safety Partnership Steering Committee
The Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation (SIDA) is a government agency within Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs. SIDA’s Transport Program, a program of the Department of Infrastructure and Economic Cooperation, provides long-term support to the transport sector in developing nations in Asia, Africa and Europe with a focus on road rehabilitation particularly in rural areas.
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Website: www.unicef.org
Member of Global Road Safety Steering Committee
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
A contributing presenter to the First and Second UN Stakeholder Forums on Global Road Safety, UNICEF has pledged to address the immediate concern of road traffic injuries. RTI’s are the third leading cause of death for the 5-9 years age group, second for the 10-14 years age group, and first for the 15-19 years age group. In response to the staggering impact of road traffic injuries on children and youth populations, UNICEF seeks to mobilize its resources within the 192 UN member countries.
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Website: www.undp.org
Member of Global Road Safety Steering Committee
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
UNDP is the United Nation's global development network; an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. The UN Road Safety Collaboration has noted the need for further involvement by UNDP in the field of road safety.
UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC)
Website: www.eclac.cl
Member of the Transitional Commission for Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
Sponsor of the First Latin American and Caribbean Road Safety Stakeholders Forum
Co-Host of the Regional Road Safety Planning Conference at Santiago, Chile January 2006
UNECLAC was founded in 1948 for the purposes of contributing to the economic development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards this end, and reinforcing economic relationships among the countries and with the other nations of the world. Host of the January 2006 Regional Road Safety Planning Conference that produced the Declaration of San Jose on regional road safety in Latin America and the Caribbean , UNECLAC continues to advance regional progress through participation in the formation of a Regional Committee on road safety.
UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Website: www.uneca.org
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
Host of the African Road Safety Conference at Accra, Ghana February 2007
UNECA has played a lead role on road safety issues for more than two decades. UNECA organized the First African Road Safety congress in 1984 in Nairobi, in collaboration with Nordic countries and has sustained its efforts, as a co-organizer of the 2007 conference which yielded the Accra Declaration.
UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Website: www.unece.org
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
Member of the Global Road Safety Partnership Steering Committee
Host of the 2nd UN Stakeholders Forum-Palais des Nations, Geneva
The UNECE, a pioneering organization in the field of road safety, originated a number of important legal instruments - the 1949 Convention on Road Traffic and its Protocol on Road Signs and Signals and the 1968 Vienna Conventions on Road Traffic and Road Signs and Signals; these documents are global in scope. The UNECE issues guidelines under the Consolidated Resolutions on Road Traffic (R.E.1) and on Road Signs and Signals (R.E.2); both sets of guidelines are currently undergoing a comprehensive revision. The UNECE organizes and conducts international road safety campaigns within the UNECE region and was behind the launching of the First United Nations Global Road Safety Week in 2007.
UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Website: www.unescap.org
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
Member of the Global Road Safety Partnership Steering Committee
Host of the Ministerial Conference on Transport in Busan, Korea November 2006
Founded in 1947 with headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, UNESCAP works in three main thematic areas: poverty reduction; managing globalization; and addressing emerging social issues. UNESCAP’s 2006 Ministerial Conference on Transport held in Busan, Republic of Korea was the site of large-scale road safety progress for the region, yielding the Busan Declaration on Transport Development in Asia and the Pacific, and the Ministerial Declaration on Improving Road Safety in Asia and the Pacific.
UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA)
Website: www.escwa.org.lb
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
Founded in 1973, UNESCWA promotes economic and social development through regional and subregional cooperation and integration and serves as the main general economic and social development forum for the UN within the Western Arab region. The Commission formulates and promotes development assistance activities and projects commensurate with the needs and priorities of the region and acts as an executing agency for relevant operational projects. UN-ESCWA coordinates its activities with other regional organizations; e.g. the League of Arab States, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, to ensure synergistic and complementary efforts and facilitate exchange of information. The Transport Committee is part of the Globalization and Regional Integration Division.
UN Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC)
Website: www.who.int/roadsafety/about/en/
The United Nations Road Safety Collaboration was created following the passing of UN General Assembly Resolution 58/289 (April 2004). More than fifty international and regional organizations working in road safety, with a broad range of skills and experience, meet twice a year to discuss global road safety. Members include UN organizations, governments, foundations, NGOs and the private sector. The goal of the UNRSC is to facilitate international cooperation among UN agencies and other international partners to implement UN General Assembly Resolution 58/289 and the recommendations of the World report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention.
World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (WBGRSF)
Website: web.worldbank.org
Sponsor of the Transitional Commission for Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean
Member of Global Road Safety Steering Committee
Member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration
Member of the Global Road Safety Partnership Steering Committee
Launched in 2005, the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility was established to generate funding and technical assistance for global, regional and country level activities to accelerate and scale-up road safety program efforts in low and middle-income countries, and to build their scientific, technological and managerial capacities to develop and implement cost-effective road safety programs.
World Health Organization (WHO)
Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention
Website: www.who.int/roadsafety/en/
Co-coordinator of UN Road Safety Collaboration
Member of Global Road Safety Steering Committee
Member of the Global Road Safety Partnership Steering Committee
Participant in 2nd Global Road Safety Stakeholders Forum
The World Health Organization's Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention works to prevent injuries and violence, to mitigate their consequences, and to enhance the quality of life for persons with disabilities irrespective of their causes. Within this broader vision, WHO addresses road traffic injuries using the public health approach which includes: awareness raising and advocacy; analyzing and disseminating information; policy development; fostering multi-sectoral networks and partnerships; building capacity and strengthening health and social systems; and supporting national, regional and global road traffic injury prevention efforts. WHO and the World Bank published the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention (2004), which provides a widely accepted framework for road traffic injury prevention. WHO, together with the UN Regional Commissions, is the coordinator of the UN Road Safety Collaboration.