Celebrating UN Global Road Safety Week 2025- ΝΕΑ από την Aip Foundation

reating a safer future for youth all around the world!  Dear Friends and Supporters,   During May, we were delighted to participate in the 8th United Nations Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) together with the international road safety community.   This UNGRSW offered an opportunity to spur action at national and local levels to make walking and cycling safe, by highlighting concrete and specific interventions that can be taken by different stakeholders – governments, international agencies, civil society, businesses and schools. This year, the international community gathered to mark the themes of #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe.   There are countless community moments and memories we made while celebrating UN Global Road Safety Week this year, but here are a few of our favourite highlights:  We attended the official UN Global Road Safety Week kick-off meeting where Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General and Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road Safety, made profound and impactful statements, reminding us that we must make walking and cycling safe and accessible for all. We were proud to share our Mobility Snapshot from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In order to achieve real change, we need to shine a light, using data to show the reality of people’s journeys to school, work, and shopping. Thuy Anh Hoang from our team spoke at the ‘Advocacy in Action: A Roundtable on Safe Mobility’ Webinar held in celebration of UN Global Road Safety Week by the Global Health Advocacy Incubator. Thuy Anh shared about the importance of empowering youth for road safety.  Together with iRAP, we were excited to share the new updated version of the Youth Engagement App (YEA), which is now available! Launched during UNGRSW to support the theme “Streets for Life: #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe”.  In support of UNGRSW, new trainings of Youth Road Safety Ambassadors at Woranari Chaolem school and an Urban Design Competition under the theme of Road Safety ‘Street Furniture’ took place as part of the Chevron Street Wise program. While the 8th UN Global Road Safety Week may have come to a close, the time for concrete action is more vital than ever before. We need change. We need commitment. We need to  #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe for all. To see what concrete plan decision-makers and Government agencies are taking in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, you can watch the official commitments from the 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety held in Marrakech earlier this year.   At AIP Foundation, we remain committed to transforming mobility for all to save lives, protect the planet and create equal opportunities for all. This is embodied by the recent launch of a new multi-partner Safe School Zones program to safeguard students on their journey to school at the end of May.   Building on the momentum of the Safe School Zones Guide, AIP Foundation is proud to have been selected as a United Nations Road Safety Fund (UNRSF) implementing partner to scale up the program and support establishing standardized school zones across the country.   As we pave the way forward together, I invite you to please read on.   Sincerely, Mirjam Sidik CEO, AIP Foundation Explore our global work: GLOBAL: AIP Foundation team marks start of UN Global Road Safety Week 2025!   Read more Phuong Luu from AIP Foundation participates at the Global Road Safety Leadership Course in the US  Read more CAMBODIA: Star Rating for Schools methodology trainings held in Siem Reap and Kampot provinces with the support of Prudential Cambodia Read more In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, our colleagues from AIP Foundation advocated to #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe for all Read more THAILAND: Chevron Street Wise program celebrates the 8th UN Global Road Safety Week in Songkhla province, Thailand   Read more As part of the 8th UN Global Road Safety Week, AIP Foundation brought together more than 1,000 stakeholders at Woranari Chaloem School Read more VIETNAM: Global launch of upgraded Youth Engagement App (YEA): Empowering global youth for safer school roads in Vietnam and across the world Read more Building a national framework for Safe School Zones across Vietnam: Launch of new multi-partner program to safeguard students on their journey to school Read more Students, teachers and senior school leaders in Pleiku City joined forces to support the 8th UN Global Road Safety Week Read more BEYOND: Road safety should not be compromised as a result of automotive trade negotiations. Ahead of the International Transport Forum (ITF) Summit of transport ministers in Germany, the road safety community had written to Dr. Juan Carlos Muñoz, who holds the current presidency, with a call to action on levelling up vehicle safety standards. AIP Foundation is proud to be a signatory of the letter Read more GLOBAL ALLIANCE ROAD SAFETY COMMUNITY IMPACT STORIES: PRESS RELEASE: Statement from the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety on the conferment of an Honorary Doctorate to its Executive Director, Lotte Brondum, by Hasselt University Read more The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety welcomes new members in Gabon and India   Read more RELATED AND UPCOMING NEWS: Today, Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety remains the only permanent body in the United Nations system that focuses on improving road safety. Its primary function is to serve as guardian of the United Nations legal instruments aimed at harmonizing traffic rules. 02 - 05 June 2025 - UNESCAP Register here!