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GET INVOLVED WITH THE #RETHINKMOBILITY UN GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY WEEK
The 7th UN Global Road Safety Week will be held 15–21 May 2023 with the
theme Streets for Life #RethinkMobility. The week is coordinated by WHO
and is held every other year in May. NGOs, governments, community
groups, and individuals mobilize around the theme, organizing local and
national campaigns to call for safer transport systems for the people
that use them.
This year's #RethinkMobility UN Global Road Safety Week is a significant
opportunity to advocate for specific interventions. These include 30
km/h zones, traffic calming measures, and other interventions that
support safe walking and cycling, contribute to SDGs 3.6 and 11.2, and
save lives. #RethinkMobility is enabling NGOs to focus their campaigns
on a narrow, evidence-based ask, while engaging a broad range of
partners, including climate, equity, health, and urban planning
advocates.
Here are some tools to help you plan your campaign and share the #RethinkMobility message:
- Use the ACCOUNTABILTY TOOLKIT to prepare your advocacy;
- Check out some campaign ACTIVITY IDEAS;
- Download MATERIALS;
- Support the campaign on social media using the hashtags; #RethinkMobility and #StreetsforLife;
- Join our Twitterstorm on Wednesday 17 May 2023 at 14:00
CEST by posting your support for the campaign on Twitter, Instagram, and
Facebook using the hashtags.
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Η ΕΥΘΥΤΑ-ΠΑΡΑΤΗΡΗΤΗΡΙΟ ΟΔΙΚΗΣ ΑΣΦΑΛΕΙΑΣ ΡΟΔΟΥ, είναι ενεργό μέλος της
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#RETHINKMOBILITY WITH THE ACCOUNTABILITY TOOLKIT
Last month, the Alliance launched the Accountability Toolkit, a set of
practical, customizable, web-based tools to support NGOs to keep their
governments accountable for reducing road deaths and injuries.
The toolkit can be used to help prepare UN Global Road Safety Week advocacy:
- Assess what your government needs to do using the ACCOUNTABILITY CHECKLIST;
- Identify necessary actions using the GOVERNMENT TO DO LIST;
- Four of the Alliance Priority Interventions directly support safer walking and cycling:
- Find consolidated data drawn from international research and local and national case studies to support your advocacy in the NGO TALKING POINTS.
Access the Accountability Toolkit HERE. Register for our upcoming online capacity building series on how to use the toolkit HERE.
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NGO INSPIRATION TO #RETHINKMOBILITY
Around the world, NGO advocacy is
helping to bring the needs of pedestrians and cyclists and other
vulnerable road users to the attention of local and national
authorities. This means that better road safety decisions can be made to
prioritize the safety of those most at risk on our roads.
In Punjab, India, Alliance members are seeing advocacy progress that is
making their cities safer for those who walk and cycle. Read how a
coalition of Alliance members is leveraging a national mandate to push
for 25 km/h zones around schools HERE.
Read how NGOs in two of Punjab's cities, Chandigarh and Patiala, are
using data gathered around the city to show the specific changes needed
to improve pedestrians' journeys and how their authorities are
responding HERE.
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RETHINK MOBILITY AT ITF
The International Transport Forum (ITF) is a key connecting point for
transport ministers and authorities, academics, and the private sector.
It is a valuable forum to call for stronger evidence-based action to
make our transport systems safer.
Ahead of this year's ITF, the Alliance will hold Live from Leipzig: #RethinkMobility,
a livestreamed event on a moving tram in Leipzig, where the forum will
be held. The event will feature the Ministers of Transport from Chile
and Tunisia. They will discuss the evidence-based solutions needed to
rethink mobility, using examples from their countries. You can register
to watch the session, which will be held at 15:00 CEST on Tuesday 23
May, HERE. This will be the second year that we have run a Live from Leipzig online event. Last year's event is pictured above.
During ITF, the Alliance will also jointly host a side event alongside
Sum4All, with IRF and Michelin, and with support from FedEx. The event,
titled Enhancing Policy, Action and Accountability for Safe Mobility,
will be held on Friday 26 May 2023 at 9:00 CEST. It will present
Sum4All's new report and the Alliance Accountability Toolkit. The event
is in person only. Please join us if you are in Leipzig. Find out more HERE.
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ZERO BLOOD ALCOHOL LAW IN ARGENTINA
Good news from Argentina this month where the Senate has overwhelmingly
voted for a national law to reduce the permitted blood alcohol level
(BAC) for drivers to zero.
Under the hashtag #AlcoholCeroAlVolante (zero alcohol while driving),
Alliance members and other NGOs in Argentina have campaigned for this
law. They encouraging Senate members to participate in the vote and
carried out a social media campaign that was also supported by Alliance
Latin America Chapter members in neighbouring countries.
ANSV, the road safety agency in Argentina, has collected data from
cities and provinces where a zero BAC limit is already mandated and
demonstrated a reduction in crashes involving drink driving. Read more HERE.
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ALLIANCE WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS
The Alliance is delighted to welcome the five new members that joined recently:
Full members
- Bicitekas A.C., Mexico
- Fundación Mónica Licona, Panama
Associate members
- Community Awareness Raising & Advocacy Ventures Around Needs (CARAVAN), Pakistan
- Suprativa, India
- World Association for Connecting People, Portugal
Read more about our new members HERE and read more about joining the Alliance HERE.
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UPCOMING EVENTS & DEADLINES
15–21 May 2023: UN Global Road Safety Week. Read more
HERE.
9 May, 1 June, 6 July, 3 August 2023, all at 14:00 CEST: Accountability Toolkit Capacity Building Series. Register
HERE.
18 May 2023, 16:00 CEST. Rethink Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized and hosted by PAHO.
23 May 2023, 15:00 CEST. Live from Leipzig: Rethink Mobility.
Livestreamed session organized by the Alliance held on a tram in
Leipzig, Germany, ahead of the International Transport Forum. Register
HERE.
26 May 2023, 9:30-11:00 CEST. Enhancing Policy, Action and Accountability for Safe Mobility side
event at the International Transport Forum, co-hosted by Sum4All, with
IRF and Michelin, and the Alliance, with support from FedEx, to present
Sum4All's new report and the Alliance's Accountability Toolkit.
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