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Youth Leaders meet with UN Special Envoy for Road Safety
São Paulo, Brazil. Earlier this month, Youth leaders Eduardo Bohn and Ornella Ubatuba de Faria Fernandez met with UN Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt this month during a Bilateral Meeting with the Thiago Gonzaga Foundation. During the meeting, Eduardo and Ornella talked about how young people are necessary for building a safer and ‘more humane’ traffic culture in policymaking and decision-making. They also shared their alarm because of the increased cases of the reckless use of motorcycles that result in more deaths and injuries on the roads of Brasil and around the world.
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Leveraging AI, iRAP’s SR4S and AiRAP partnerships to provide 3-star or better journeys
United Kingdom, September 12, 2023 – The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) is receiving USD$2 million in grant funding and additional support from Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, to provide children with a safer journey to school.
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Young Leaders Come Together in Spain for Youth Leadership Retreat
Madrid, Spain - YOURS - Youth for Road Safety through the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety gathered members from its youth leadership structures to participate in the first-ever Youth Leadership Retreat on Road Safety from the 29th of August to the 1st of September. A total of 23 leaders from 18 countries were present during the Retreat.
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WE ARE HIRING: YOURS Projects & Partnerships Director
We are looking for a Projects & Partnerships Director. They will have the overall responsibility to lead the projects’ portfolio and the fundraising cycle at YOURS . This person will work closely with the Executive Director, and together, they will ensure the projects are in line with the YOURS strategic plan, follow the highest standards in terms of accountability, and are well-resourced.
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"Empowering Global Youth Leaders: Madrid Retreat Unites Visionaries to Build Skills and Combat the Global Road Safety Crisis"
August 29th, 2023. Madrid. YOURS - Youth for Road Safety and the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety will host the first Youth Leadership Retreat on Road Safety from 29th August - 1st September in Madrid, Spain, to build new skills in tackling the biggest killer of young people globally; road traffic crashes. The Retreat is supported by Spain’s Fundación MAPFRE, who will host the training at their Madrid headquarters, and counts on the financial support of YOURS long-lasting partners, TotalEnergies Foundation and MICHELIN Corporate Foundation.
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Our Annual Report for 2022 is LIVE!
We are happy and proud to share the YOURS Annual Report 2022! Look back on the highlights of youth-led action on road safety, sustainable mobility, and meaningful youth participation. Youth voices were at the forefront of different high-level events that called on decision-makers and policymakers to meaningfully engage youth to address the road safety crisis. Read more about our work in this report.
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YOURS Contributes to ‘The Lancet’ Academic Journal
2023 July - Earlier this month, the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health - a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal - published a paper titled “Unintentional Injuries in Adolescents: A Neglected Issue in Global Health” by Amy E Peden, Ali Işın, Rumanusina Maua, Soumyadeep Bhaumik, and YOURS Advocacy Director Stefania Minniti. The publication covers areas of adolescent health that include but are not limited to, mental health, suicide, and road traffic injuries.
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YOURS Joins Global Meeting of the Network of Heads of National Road Safety Agencies
Stockholm, Sweden - Last 28 June, YOURS - Youth for Road Safety Executive Director Raquel Barrios joined the Global Meeting of the Network of Heads of National Road Safety Agencies to discuss the importance and necessity of engaging, involving, and supporting young people in the design and implementation of road safety policies worldwide.
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Spotlight: 1.8 Billion Young People for Change Campaign during Raahgiri Day
18 June 2023 - The 1.8 Billion Young People for Change Campaign kicked off in Delhi, India during Raahgiri Day coordinated by FIA Foundation and Raahgiri Foundation. According to the World Resources Institute, Raahgiri Day was initially launched in 2013 as India’s first sustained car-free event. Every Sunday during the Raahgiri event, streets are closed to all motorized vehicles from morning until noon.
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Change of Leadership at YOURS
We are proud to announce that, as of the 1st of June 2023, Raquel Barrios takes the helm of YOURS - Youth for Road Safety Executive Director. This comes after our Founder Floor Lieshout steps down from the role. We recorded a conversation between the two about what this leadership change holds for the future of YOURS as an organization. Check out the transcription below.
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YOURS Projects Director Raquel Barrios joins ITF 2023
Leipzig, Germany - Last week, 25 May, YOURS - Youth for Road Safety Projects Director Raquel Barrios participated during the International Transport Forum 2023 in a panel on “How Safer Roads Can Boost Economy”. Raquel joined the Head of the Global Road Safety Facility and Global Lead of Road Safety from the World Bank Said Dahdah, World Health Organization (WHO) Head of Safety and Mobility Nahn Tran, Chief Innovation Officer of ERTICO-ITS Europe Johanna Tzanidaki, and president of Bolt Jevgeni Kabanov.
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Rethink Mobility with Youth!
For the 7th UN Global Road Safety Week, YOURS - Youth for Road Safety Advocacy and Campaigns Director Sana’a Khasawneh joined Dr. Etienne Krug from the World Health Organization to talk about how transport and mobility affect global health and sustainable cities. The conversation will focus on why it's crucial for us to #RethinkMobility a nd make our streets safer for everyone . Check out the full transcript.
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ITF Summit happening in Leipzig, Germany
The 2023 International Transport Forum (ITF) Summit will take place from the 24th to the 26th of May in Leipzig, Germany under the Presidency of the United Kingdom. The summit will focus on the role of transport in enhancing social welfare, providing benefits to society, and promoting inclusion while minimizing externalities such as traffic congestion. Our Projects Director Raquel Barrios will join the summit as one of the speakers.
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Global Road Safety Leadership Course kicks off
The Global Road Safety Leadership Course led by Johns Hopkins, the International Injury Research Unit, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Global Road Safety Partnership kicks off on 8 May with up to 100 participants from 20 countries all over the world. Our Youth Leadership Board Member Estiara Ellizar, Latin America Regional Leader Ezequiel Naidich, and YOURS - Youth for Road Safety Projects Director Raquel Barrios are among the participants of the Course.
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Coming full circle on our Belizean Youth Empowerment Programme in Belize
Belize - Last week from the 17th to the 21st of April, Manpreet Darroch and Laura Daniela Gomez of the YOURS Capacity Development Team went to Belize to conduct a "Training of Facilitators" session to train the Belize Youth for Road Safety to become road safety leaders in their region and community. The five-day training session was filled with interactive activities that put the current mobility situation into perspective.
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YOURS welcomes new member of project management team
We are happy to welcome our new team member, John Mwikwabe from Kenya, into the YOURS - Youth for Road Safety Team as our project manager for the upcoming Claiming Our Space Campaign. John joined the team earlier this April and will take charge of the strategic planning and implementation of the Global Youth Coalition’s art campaign. Learn more about John by reading on!
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Youth joins Disability Advocacy & Research Network Festival in Tanzania
Last January, Bornemouth University and volunteer disability activists from East and Central Africa invited different sectors to join the Disability Advocacy in East Asia Project which looks to fuse academic research with practice in the field of disability studies and other related fields. This month, Bournemouth and the Action on Disability and Development (ADD) International led the Youth Disability Advocacy & Research Network Festival.
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YOURS joins Delft Road Safety Course in the Netherlands
Delft, Netherlands - Last week, our Executive Director Floor Lieshout and Global Youth Coalition Youth Leadership Board member Oliva Nalwadda joined the annual Delft Road Safety Course (DRSC) in a five-day session that brought together road safety professionals from around the world to take part in the first in-person DRSC since 2019.
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The Youth Coalition launches its SDG 11 Policy Brief
20 April, Thursday - The SDG 11 Champions of the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety Alain Ghossein, Oliva Nalwadda, and Stephen Kome Fondzenyuy lead the launch of our latest SDG Policy Brief on road safety and sustainable cities titled “Rethinking Mobility and Road Safety: A Transformative Vision of Youth”, which they wrote and delivered.
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DG INTPA launches call for applications for EU Youth Sounding Board 2023-2025
The Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) has opened the call for applications for young people to participate in the second edition of the EU Youth Sounding Board for International Partnerships (2023-2025). The Board will advise the European Commissioner for International Partnerships and its Directorate-General on youth participation and empowerment in EU External Action.
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