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Using data to drive advocacy
“Advocacy, commitments, funding, and implementation of interventions
which do not reduce deaths and injuries are wasting time and resources,”
said Chika Sakashita, the Alliance’s Director of Research and
Accountability, in an Alliance opinion piece Accountability: what it means for governments and NGOs in road safety,
published in 2023. Good road safety decisions and implementations are
based on solid data and evidence that they will save lives.
A wide body of evidence shows us how interventions, such as 30 km/h
zones, traffic calming, and pedestrian facilities, have reduced road
deaths and injuries in a variety of countries and contexts. To convince
decision makers to implement these proven actions in their own
jurisdictions, NGOs may also need local data to demonstrate what road
users face every day.
Getting relevant, specific, credible, local data can be challenging. It is in this context that the Alliance is launching the Mobility Snapshots.
Convincing data doesn’t always have to be complicated. Counting the
number of road users and recording what interventions are lacking to
protect them are some of the simple ways that NGOs can gather useful
data for advocacy.
Read more HERE. |
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#CommitToAct 2024
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Join the #CommitToAct Mobility Snapshot campaign
It’s less than a month until the #CommitToAct campaign week. Take part
by identifying an intersection and doing a Mobility Snapshot between
20–26 May 2024 and joining the social media campaign.
The Mobility Snapshots aim to highlight people’s unsafe and
unsustainable daily journeys—a reality that is too often normalized and
accepted as inevitable. The Snapshots capture simple data to back up
NGOs’ local and global advocacy for evidence-based interventions to
reduce road deaths and injuries and make streets safe for all road
users. We’ve teamed up with iRAP to develop easy-to-use,
data-driven Mobility Snapshot tools based on international best
practices. Check them out and watch a walkthrough of the tools HERE.
Signboards, social media cards, and a photo and video frame are also now available to help build campaign momentum. Find them HERE. |
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Fundación Emilia's advocacy in Chile
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Data-driven advocacy in Chile
“By systematically collecting relevant data, we can gain insights into
the underlying causes of road crashes and develop targeted interventions
to improve road safety. This data-driven approach allows for
evidence-based decision making and the implementation of effective
measures to reduce road crashes and enhance overall road safety,” says
Javiera Vitar, Education Area Coordinator, Fundación Emilia, Chile.
Fundación Emilia is advocating for the widespread adoption of 30 km/h zones in Chile as part of its Alliance Incubator project using the Accountability Toolkit.
They analyzed data, obtained through public transparency requests, from
the Carabineros de Chile, the Public Ministry, and the Health
Statistics Directorate (Ministry of Health) to identify interventions
that would protect vulnerable road users, including pedestrians and
cyclists. The data revealed that a higher number of crashes was
occurring at specific intersections near commercial services, such as
shopping centers, and schools. This happened more on certain days, at
specific times, and speed was identified as one of the primary factors.
Fundación Emilia is using these data to advocate for targeted safety
measures and the implementation of 30 km/h zones in these high-risk
areas. Read more HERE.
Fundación Emilia's work highlights the need to make intersections safe
for pedestrians and other road users. Find out how to use the Mobility
Snapshots for data-driven advocacy for 30 km/h limits, pedestrian
facilities, and traffic calming HERE. |
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#RethinkMobility Painting presented to the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres
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Read our Annual Report
We are delighted to share our 2023 Annual Report with you. Highlights include:
- The Eighth Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims;
- The launch of the Accountability Toolkit;
- The #RethinkMobility UN Global Road Safety Week;
- The launch of our new Strategic Plan 2024–2030: From Global Commitments to Local Delivery.
The report shows how road safety NGOs
are uniting to fulfil their role assigned in the Global Plan for the
Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030, with a vision of “a world
where everyone has access to safe, affordable, accessible, and
sustainable mobility, using the road system, and where no one dies or is
seriously injured as a result of a road crash.”
Read the report HERE. |
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Alliance members in Latin America in a preparatory meeting for the First Regional Meeting in the region
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First regional meeting in Latin America
The First Regional Meeting in Latin America is moving forward. The
conference, to be held in Mexico on 5–7 November 2024 with the support
of Fundación Aleatica, will bring together Latin America
Chapter NGOs alongside government and corporate stakeholders from across
the region to share best practices and collaborate on strategies to
improve road safety and save lives.
Earlier this month, members of the Latin America Chapter in Mexico met
with the Alliance's Lotte Brondum and Florencia Lambrosquini to take
part in a consultation to support planning for the meeting. NGOs from
around the region are invited to register their interest in sharing
their work by submitting an abstract that demonstrates good
practices and projects with achievable results or success stories. Find
the call for abstracts HERE.
The meeting will be a chance for NGOs to mobilize and
advocate together and will be a valuable opportunity to track the
progress of the Global Plan in the region and prepare for
the upcoming Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety
in February 2025. We are organizing an information session on Thursday 2
May at 19:00 CET for NGOs to find out more about the Regional Meeting
and start preparing. Register HERE. |
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