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GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF NGOs FOR ROAD SAFETY  Newsletter | 31 May 2019 Dear Friends, The global road safety community united this month to #SpeakUp for road safety leadership during the Fifth UN Global Road Safety Week. Building on this momentum, the Alliance has launched a new campaign, #CommitToAct. #CommitToAct will support and mobilize NGOs as they push their authorities to make clear and specific road safety commitments and track them to make sure that commitments are followed through into meaningful action. Read more BELOW. Be a part of achieving real change with us: #CommitToAct. Yours sincerely, Lotte Brondum Executive Director

JOIN OUR CAMPAIGN: #COMMITTOACT  The theme of the Fifth UN Global Road Safety Week was leadership. The Alliance’s new campaign, #CommitToAct, continues this theme, calling on government authorities to show leadership by taking action on their road safety commitments. #CommitToAct will incorporate a series of initiatives to help NGOs push their governments for commitment and action on road safety in the run up to the Third Global Ministerial Meeting on Road Safety in Sweden 2020. The #CommitToAct campaign will include efforts to generate meaningful road safety commitments through the Round the World Roundtables, tracking to ensure that these commitments are followed up, and a series of actions leading to a coordinated civil society event in Sweden in February 2020. We encourage you to get involved. Listen to Lotte Brondum, Executive Director of the Alliance, explain #CommitToAct HERE (YouTube), find more about the campaign HERE, and stay tuned for more ways to get involved in the coming months.  #SPEAKUP AROUND THE WORLD During UN Global Road Safety Week, NGOs joined forces with their communities, private sector, academia, and government agencies to #SpeakUp and demand leadership in road safety. Demands were made, petitions signed, and commitments made. 461 demands with 11,396,854 supporters were registered via the official website. In some countries, including Bangladesh and Kenya, NGOs joined with their national governments to mark the campaign. See photos and stories from Alliance members around the world HERE. EU LEADERS #COMMITTOACT Lotte Brondum, Executive Director, presented the Alliance’s #CommitToAct campaign at the High Level Group on Road Safety at the European Commission this month and called on Ministers from around the European Union to commit to road safety leadership and take action to reduce road fatalities. Read more HERE.  COMMITMENT IN TUNISIA This month, the President of Tunisia announced the creation of a supreme committee for road safety attached to the presidential office. This is a significant move because it brings together all the fragmented elements of road safety in different government departments and other organizations in one committee under supervision of the president's office. Alliance member and recent FedEx Award winner Les Ambassadeurs de la Sécurité Routière has pushed for this committee for many years. It will be following up to make sure that the commitment is put into action and that the committee becomes operational. Read more HERE. NEW VOLUNTARY TARGETS WEBINARS: CAR STANDARDS AND SPEED MANAGEMENT We have released two more webinars in our series NGOs and the Voluntary Targets.  Target 5: Apply high quality standards to new and used vehicles. “If we could all drive the safest vehicle in our class, then road traffic trauma would drop by a third,” says Jessica Truong, Global NCAP, explaining why vehicle safety standard regulation is an essential element in reducing road traffic injuries.  Target 6: Reduce speeding. “Crouch down and consider streets from an eight-year-old’s viewpoint,” says Rod King of 20’s Plenty For Us. He explains how and why NGOs should advocate for lower speed limits.  Find the new webinars HERE. All our webinars are free and available via our website and YouTube. You can listen to them as many times as you like. AMEND WINS WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ROSS PRIZE FOR CITIES Amend has been awarded the inaugural World Resources Institute (WRI) Ross Prize for Cities for its School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) program. Amend was chosen for the prestigious award, which focuses on urban transformation, from among a shortlist of sustainability projects from many sectors, including a program in South Africa to improve the livelihoods and capacities of informal vendors, restoration of a highly polluted river and public green space in Turkey, a waste-pickers cooperative in India, and an aerial cable car connecting the most marginalized residents of Medellín, Colombia to the city. Read more HERE. ALLIANCE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND BYLAWS The Alliance's Fourth General Assembly was held during the Global Meeting. Alliance members voted in new Board Members and agreed to changes in the bylaws. The updated bylaws have now been uploaded to the website in English, French, and Spanish. Find them HERE and find the minutes from the General Assembly HERE. Links to the photographs and a selection of presentations from the Global Meeting can be found HERE. ALLIANCE WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS The Alliance is excited to welcome two new members that joined us recently. Observatoire Guinéen de la Sécurité Routière et de la Mobilité Urbaine (OBSERMU), Guinea Shubham Soti Foundation, India Read more about our new members HERE.

GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF NGOs FOR ROAD SAFETY 

Newsletter | 31 May 2019

GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF NGOs FOR ROAD SAFETY 

Newsletter | 31 May 2019

Newsletter | 31 May 2019