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Adolescent Health and Road Safety
Young people under 25 comprise over 40% of the global population with adolescents aged 10 to 19 years old. This accounts for an estimated 1.2 billion in the overall population. [1] Despite the size of the adolescent population and the short and long-term benefits of investment in this age group, there is a struggle in efforts to leverage attention, funding, and political will toward adolescent health and well-being.
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Bournemouth University holds Disability Advocacy in East Africa Project
Bournemouth University and volunteer disability activists from East and Central Africa have come together to lead the Disability Advocacy in East Africa Project which looks to fuse academic research with practice in the fields of disability studies, political science, policy, education, advocacy, communication, arts, and more to build a research and action-oriented network to support persons with disabilities in East and Central Africa.
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Have you applied for Local Actions?
The Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety’s call for proposals for Local Actions 2023 is still live! The Local Actions is an opportunity for young people to create and implement road safety projects in their communities as a way to realize the demands presented in the Global Youth Statement for Road Safety and the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030.
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Youth join session on Vision Zero by 2050 during Safety 2022
We capped off 2022 by forwarding the youth and road safety agenda during the 14th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. The event, which happened from the 27th to the 30th of November in Adelaide, Australia brought together the global injury prevention community to highlight the vital work done on injury prevention and safety promotion.
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The road safety community commemorates the World Day of Remembrance
Thousands of people die on the world's roads yearly due to road traffic crashes. To honour their lives and support those loved ones left behind, the World Health Organization (WHO) held a special online event to commemorate the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. We are proud to have been asked to lead the production of this important event.
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UNRSF Invites CSOs to apply for grants
The United Nations Road Safety Fund (UNRSF) recently released a call for expression announcement inviting qualified Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from low-to-middle-income countries who are interested in being considered for direct access to UNRSF grants in the future. The call for expression runs until the 18th of November 2022.
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Our leaders join Dialogue on Powered Two-Wheeled Vehicle Safety
Manila, Philippines - This week, 11-13 October, our members Ray Adrian Macalalag and Maolin Macatangay joined the Asia Development Bank’s Dialogue for Powered-Two-Wheeled Vehicles to advocate for meaningful youth participation to help address road safety issues for road users, particularly those who use motorcycles, e-bikes, and other two-wheeled vehicles.
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Module #2 of YOURS Academy is officially LIVE
We’ve officially launched the second module of YOURS Academy today, September 28, in an online session with our members and partners! This latest module covers the Safe Systems Approach and the Risk Factors that increase the chances of getting involved in a road crash. The topic comes right after discussing the Global Road Safety Problem and Youth.
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Our youth leader joined the SVRI Forum to link gender and road safety
One of our regional leaders from the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety, Olufunke Afesojaye, joined the SVRI Forum earlier from the 19th to the 23rd of September in Cancún, Mexico. The SVRI, which means Sexual Violence Research Initiative, aims to achieve a world free of violence against women and children. In one of SDG 5 Policy Brief, we highlight how road safety connects with gender equality and the importance of providing women with safe spaces to move.
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Inaugural student Re:act Brazil campaign on shared responsibility on the road
Latin America, Brazil - On September 14, the Re:act road safety behaviour change program challenges university students to raise awareness among 18-25 year olds of road safety issues to change behaviour and make all road users safer. This story is a reprint of the media release published by RE:ACT .
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We are proud to welcome our newest Capacity Development Manager!
We are very excited to announce that we have appointed Laura Daniela Gómez from Colombia as our newest Capacity Development Manager. In her role, Daniela will provide technical support and be a fundamental part of implementing actions within our Capacity Development strategies. She started working with us early this September.
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Road safety and SDG 4: Our Policy Brief at the UN Transforming Education Summit
Last week from 16 - 19 September, our members Alison Collard de Beaufort and Thiago Gruner joined the United Nations Transforming Education Summit at the UN Head Quarters in New York City. The Summit is a key initiative launched by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety meets with our youth leaders
Last Month, August, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt met up with some of our youth leaders from Latin America to talk about some of the most pressing road safety issues young people face. He met with Aldo González Barrera and Ana Ródriguez from Mexico, Laura Daniela Gómez from Colombia, and Cecilia Morales from Guatemala.
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Check out the YOURS Annual Report for 2021
We are proud to publish our Annual Report 2021. Look back on all the highlights around road safety, sustainable mobility, and meaningful youth participation. Our youth leaders hit the ground running, implementing projects and initiatives that address road safety and development issues under the Sustainable Development Goals and the Decade of Action for Road Safety. Read all about our achievements today.
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Our Policymakers’ Toolkit is LIVE
Our Policymakers’ Toolkit is here! We bring you a unique advocacy document that will help policymakers and decision-makers meaningfully engage with young people. This Toolkit promotes the core principles of meaningful youth participation as a cycle of relationship building, commitment, investment, and a shift in mindset around the idea of working with youth and for youth.
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Have you enrolled at YOURS Academy?
It’s been three months since we launched YOURS Academy, our latest learning platform and the definitive online e-learning road safety school. We took our award-winning capacity development workshops and turned them into online modules that you can access any time, anywhere. Join us to take action against the biggest killer of youth in the world; road traffic crashes. Enroll today by going to https://www.yoursacademy.org !
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Our Policymakers Toolkit is coming to you soon!
Last month during the High-Level Meeting on Road Safety, we announced the launch of our Policymakers Toolkit - a document that will guide policymakers and decision-makers on how to meaningfully engage and involve young people. Meaningful youth engagement, particularly in road safety, is something we’ve championed since the very beginning. We believe that young people have a right to be involved in the issues that most affect their lives.
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SDG Champion Omnia El Omrani named official COP27 Youth Envoy
A huge congratulations to our SDG Champion, Dr. Omnia El Omrani, for being named the official Youth Envoy for the UN Climate Change Conference 2022, Conference of Parties (COP27) taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt! Omnia is one of our youth leaders leading the policy brief on SDG 13: Climate Action. She has also represented the Youth Coalition during the previous UN Climate Change Conference or COP26.
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Road safety in Thailand: engaging young people
ELEVATING THE CALL FOR MEANINGFUL YOUTH PARTICIPATION: YOURS - Youth for Road Safety representatives speak during the Standing Committee on the Transport of the House of Representatives of Thailand in their seminar on road safety and youth involvement. The event was titled “Towards the 2nd Decade of Action for Road Safety: Safety for Children and Participation of Young People” and it put the spotlight on having young people's inputs in road safety efforts in Thailand.
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Spotlight on gender issues in road safety during Nalafem Summit
With the release of our latest policy brief on gender equality and safe and secure mobility, our leaders have been working hard to establish the linkages between road safety and the Global Goals. Olulfunke Afesojaye (Nigeria), one of our SDG Champions for Gender Equality in Road Safety, joined the Nalafem Summit last July 1 to represent the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety.
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